Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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Mother
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Revelation 17:5
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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28 occurrences in 25 verses.
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Genesis
1918 verses
Exodus
44 verses
Leviticus
97 verses
Numbers
22 verses
Deuteronomy
1010 verses
Joshua
33 verses
Judges
1613 verses
Ruth
119 verses
1 Samuel
33 verses
2 Samuel
33 verses
1 Kings
1111 verses
2 Kings
99 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
2 Chronicles
33 verses
Esther
21 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
66 verses
Proverbs
1414 verses
Song of Solomon
44 verses
Isaiah
44 verses
Jeremiah
77 verses
Ezekiel
88 verses
Hosea
44 verses
Micah
21 verses
Zechariah
21 verses
Matthew
2825 verses
Mark
1918 verses
Luke
2118 verses
John
98 verses
Acts
22 verses
Romans
11 verses
Galatians
11 verses
Ephesians
22 verses
2 Timothy
11 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
Revelation
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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אֵם
ʼêm · ame
143 times translated as this KJV form220 total Strong's occurrences
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father])
Strong's KJV usage: dam, mother, × parting.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 2:24Strong's last: Zechariah 13:3
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mḗtēr · may'-tare
76 times translated as this KJV form86 total Strong's occurrences
a "mother" (literally or figuratively, immediate or remote)
Strong's KJV usage: :--mother.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 1:18Strong's last: Revelation 17:5
Open full G3384 profile →πενθερά
pentherá · pen-ther-ah'
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a wife's mother
Strong's KJV usage: :--mother in law, wife's mother.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 8:14Strong's last: Luke 12:53
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amḗtōr · am-ay'-tore
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
motherless, i.e. of unknown maternity
Strong's KJV usage: :--without mother.
Strong's first: Hebrews 7:3Strong's last: Hebrews 7:3
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H517
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
H517
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
H517
And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
H517
And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
H517
Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
H517
But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
H517
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
H517
And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
H517
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
H517
And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
H517
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
H517
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
H517
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
H517
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
H517
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
H517
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
English meaning and historical usage.
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mother
MOTHER, noun [Latin mater, mother; matrix, the womb; materia, matter, stuff, materials of which any thing is made. We observe that in some other languages, as well as in English, the same word signifies a female parent, and the thick slime formed in vinegar; and in all the languages of Europe here cited, the orthography is nearly the same as that of mud and matter. The question then occurs whether the name of a female parent originated in a word expressing matter, mold; either the soil of the earth, as the producer, or the like substance, when shaped and fitted as a mold for castings; or whether the name is connected with the opinion that the earth is the mother of all productions; whence the word mother-earth. We are informed by a fragment of Sanchoniathon, that the ancient Phenicians considered mud to be the substance from which all things were formed. See Mud. The word matter is evidently from the Ar. madda, to secrete, eject or discharge a purulent substance; and I think cannot have any direct connection with mud. But in the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, the same word madre signified mother and a mold for castings; and the northern languages, particularly the German and Danish, seem to establish the fact that the proper sense of mother is matrix. Hence mother of pearl, the matrix of pearl. If this word had its origin in the name of the earth used for the forms of castings, it would not be a singular fact; for our word mold, in this sense, I suppose to be so named from mold, fine earth. The question remains sub judice.]
1. A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child; correlative to son or daughter.
2. That which has produced any thing.
Alas, poor country! it cannot
Be called our mother but our grave.
So our native land is called mother country, and a plant from which a slip or cion is taken, is called the mother plant. In this use, mother may be considered as an adjective.
3. That which has preceded in time; the oldest or chief of any thing; as a mother-church.
4. Hysterical passion. [Not used.]
5. A familiar term of address or appellation of an old woman or matron.
6. An appellation given to a woman who exercises care and tenderness towards another, or gives parental advice; as when one says, ' a woman has been a mother to me.'
7. A thick slimy substance concreted in liquors, particularly in vinegar, very different from scum or common lees.
MOTHER of pearl, noun The matrix of pearl; the shell in which pearls are generated; a species of Mytilus or Mussel.
MOTHER of thyme, noun A plant of the genus Thymus.
MOTHER, adjective Native; natural; received by birth; as mother-wit.
1. Native; vernacular; received from parents or ancestors; as mother-tongue.
MOTHER, verb intransitive To concrete, as the thick matter of liquors.
MOTHER, verb transitive To adopt as a son or daughter.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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