Old Testament Verb: זָכַר (zākar), GK 2349 (S 2142), 235×. zākar means “to remember.” Remembering can occur with either God or human beings as the subject. Such memory can trigger many different reactions in the Bible (and in our own personal lives). (1) With humans as the subject, memory of certain things can bring about pain, such as the exiles remembering what life was like in Jerusalem (Ps. 137:1; Lam. 3:19–20) or the escaped Israelites remembering the good food they ate in Egypt (Num.