# H2142 זָכַר

זָכַר (zâkar), Strong’s H2142: properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male KJV: [idiom] burn (incense), [idiom] earnestly, be male, (make)…

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*zâkar* — properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male

KJV: [idiom] burn (incense), [idiom] earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful…

Derived from [זָכָר zâkâr](https://besorah.bible/word/H2145) (remembered, i.e. a male)

Occurs 232 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- זָכַר vb. remember
- Qal
- I Human subj.
- 1 remember, recall, call to mind, usu. as affecting present feeling, thought or action
- 2 remember persons (human subj.)
- 3 remember י׳
- 4 remember
- 5 think of or on, call to mind something present or future
- 6 remember a day, to observe, commemorate it
- 7 remember, with implied mention of, obj.
- II Subj. י׳ (אלהִם)
- 1 remember persons
- a remember the distress of his servants
- b their devotion
- a remember his own covenant (with them)
- b his mercy
- c extenuating circumstances
- 4 remember sins, idolatries
- Niph.
- 1 be brought to remembrance, remembered, thought of, usu. c. neg.
- 2 neg. be not remembered = no longer exist, of name of Israel, as nation
- 3 be remembered, of particular days, in order to be observed, commemorated
- Hiph.
- 1 cause to remember, remind
- 2 cause to be remembered, keep in remembrance
- 3 mention
- 4 record, only pt.
- 5 of sacrifice, make a memorial

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 8:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=1) — God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass…
- [Genesis 9:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=15) — I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no…
- [Genesis 9:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=16) — The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every…
- [Genesis 19:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=29) — When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow…
- [Genesis 30:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=22) — God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
- [Genesis 40:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=14) — But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me…
- [Genesis 40:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=23) — Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.
- [Genesis 41:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=9) — Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
- [Genesis 42:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=9) — Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the…
- [Exodus 2:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=24) — God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.