H517: אֵם
ʼêm · pronounced ame · “mother”
Definition
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
KJV translates it as: dam, mother, [idiom] parting.
Word origin: a primitive word;
Extended definition
1a) of humans
1b) of Deborah's relationship to the people (fig.)
1c) of animals
2) point of departure or division
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H517 is translated
- his ×101
- your ×36
- my ×29
- the mother of ×15
- her ×12
- a mother ×8
- mother ×6
- its ×6
- their ×4
- was the mother of ×1
- a mother of ×1
- our ×1
Bible verses with H517 (ʼêm)
ʼêm appears in 202 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- 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.
- Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- Genesis 20:12
And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 24:28
And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these things.
- Genesis 24:53
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
- Genesis 24:55
And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
- Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Genesis 27:11
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
- Genesis 27:13
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
- Genesis 27:14
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
- Genesis 27:29
Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
- Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Padan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
- Genesis 28:5
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan–aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
- Genesis 28:7
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;
- Genesis 29:10
And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
- Genesis 30:14
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.
- Genesis 32:11
Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
- Genesis 37:10
And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
- Genesis 43:29
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
- Genesis 44:20
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
- Exodus 2:8
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.
- Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- Exodus 21:15
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 21:17
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
All 202 references
- Exodus 22:30
- Exodus 23:19
- Exodus 34:26
- Leviticus 18:7
- Leviticus 18:9
- Leviticus 18:13
- Leviticus 19:3
- Leviticus 20:9
- Leviticus 20:14
- Leviticus 20:17
- Leviticus 20:19
- Leviticus 21:2
- Leviticus 21:11
- Leviticus 22:27
- Leviticus 24:11
- Numbers 6:7
- Numbers 12:12
- Deuteronomy 5:16
- Deuteronomy 13:6
- Deuteronomy 14:21
- Deuteronomy 21:13
- Deuteronomy 21:18
- Deuteronomy 21:19
- Deuteronomy 22:6
- Deuteronomy 22:7
- Deuteronomy 22:15
- Deuteronomy 27:16
- Deuteronomy 27:22
- Deuteronomy 33:9
- Joshua 2:13
- Joshua 2:18
- Joshua 6:23
- Judges 5:7
- Judges 5:28
- Judges 8:19
- Judges 9:1
- Judges 9:3
- Judges 14:2
- Judges 14:3
- Judges 14:4
- Judges 14:5
- Judges 14:6
- Judges 14:9
- Judges 14:16
- Judges 16:17
- Judges 17:2
- Judges 17:3
- Judges 17:4
- Ruth 1:8
- Ruth 2:11
- 1 Samuel 2:19
- 1 Samuel 15:33
- 1 Samuel 20:30
- 1 Samuel 22:3
- 2 Samuel 17:25
- 2 Samuel 19:37
- 2 Samuel 20:19
- 1 Kings 1:11
- 1 Kings 2:13
- 1 Kings 2:19
- 1 Kings 2:20
- 1 Kings 2:22
- 1 Kings 3:27
- 1 Kings 11:26
- 1 Kings 14:21
- 1 Kings 14:31
- 1 Kings 15:2
- 1 Kings 15:10
- 1 Kings 15:13
- 1 Kings 17:23
- 1 Kings 19:20
- 1 Kings 22:42
- 1 Kings 22:52
- 2 Kings 3:2
- 2 Kings 3:13
- 2 Kings 4:19
- 2 Kings 4:20
- 2 Kings 4:30
- 2 Kings 8:26
- 2 Kings 9:22
- 2 Kings 11:1
- 2 Kings 12:1
- 2 Kings 14:2
- 2 Kings 15:2
- 2 Kings 15:33
- 2 Kings 18:2
- 2 Kings 21:1
- 2 Kings 21:19
- 2 Kings 22:1
- 2 Kings 23:31
- 2 Kings 23:36
- 2 Kings 24:8
- 2 Kings 24:12
- 2 Kings 24:15
- 2 Kings 24:18
- 1 Chronicles 2:26
- 1 Chronicles 4:9
- 2 Chronicles 12:13
- 2 Chronicles 13:2
- 2 Chronicles 15:16
- 2 Chronicles 20:31
- 2 Chronicles 22:2
- 2 Chronicles 22:3
- 2 Chronicles 22:10
- 2 Chronicles 24:1
- 2 Chronicles 25:1
- 2 Chronicles 26:3
- 2 Chronicles 27:1
- 2 Chronicles 29:1
- Esther 2:7
- Job 1:21
- Job 17:14
- Job 31:18
- Psalms 22:9
- Psalms 22:10
- Psalms 27:10
- Psalms 35:14
- Psalms 50:20
- Psalms 51:5
- Psalms 69:8
- Psalms 71:6
- Psalms 109:14
- Psalms 113:9
- Psalms 131:2
- Psalms 139:13
- Proverbs 1:8
- Proverbs 4:3
- Proverbs 6:20
- Proverbs 10:1
- Proverbs 15:20
- Proverbs 19:26
- Proverbs 20:20
- Proverbs 23:22
- Proverbs 23:25
- Proverbs 28:24
- Proverbs 29:15
- Proverbs 30:11
- Proverbs 30:17
- Proverbs 31:1
- Ecclesiastes 5:15
- Song of Solomon 1:6
- Song of Solomon 3:4
- Song of Solomon 3:11
- Song of Solomon 6:9
- Song of Solomon 8:1
- Song of Solomon 8:2
- Song of Solomon 8:5
- Isaiah 8:4
- Isaiah 49:1
- Isaiah 50:1
- Isaiah 66:13
- Jeremiah 15:8
- Jeremiah 15:10
- Jeremiah 16:3
- Jeremiah 16:7
- Jeremiah 20:14
- Jeremiah 20:17
- Jeremiah 22:26
- Jeremiah 50:12
- Jeremiah 52:1
- Lamentations 2:12
- Lamentations 5:3
- Ezekiel 16:3
- Ezekiel 16:44
- Ezekiel 16:45
- Ezekiel 19:2
- Ezekiel 19:10
- Ezekiel 21:21
- Ezekiel 22:7
- Ezekiel 23:2
- Ezekiel 44:25
- Hosea 2:2
- Hosea 2:5
- Hosea 4:5
- Hosea 10:14
- Micah 7:6
- Zechariah 13:3