Word Study · Strong's H2545 · Hebrew
חֲמוֹת
chamoth
kham-oth'
Strong's 1890 spelling: chămôwth
“a mother-in-law”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a mother-in-law
Rendered in the KJV as
mother in law.
- 11occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 10inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 11 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 10
- חֲמוֹתָֽהּ׃2
- בַּחֲמֹתָ֑הּ1
- חֲמוֹתָ֖הּ1
- חֲמוֹתָ֜הּ1
- חֲמוֹתָ֑הּ1
- חֲמוֹתָ֔הּ1
- חֲמוֹתֵ֔ךְ1
- חֲמוֹתֵֽךְ׃1
- לַחֲמוֹתָ֔הּ1
- לַחֲמוֹתָ֗הּ1
How it is rendered · 4
- mother-in-law her6
- mother-in-law your2
- to mother-in-law her2
- on mother-in-law her1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular6
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcfsc/Sp3fs · 6
- HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fs · 3
- HNcfsc/Sp2fs · 2
All 11, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Ruth10 occurrences
- Ruth 1:14לַחֲמוֹתָ֔הּlachamotahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularAgain they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.here: to mother-in-law her
- Ruth 2:11חֲמוֹתֵ֔ךְchamotekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singularBoaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.here: mother-in-law your
- Ruth 2:18חֲמוֹתָ֖הּchamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularShe picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.here: mother-in-law her
- Ruth 2:19חֲמוֹתָ֜הּchamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularThen her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.here: mother-in-law her
- Ruth 2:19לַחֲמוֹתָ֗הּlachamotahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularThen her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.here: to mother-in-law her
- Ruth 2:23חֲמוֹתָֽהּ׃chamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularSo Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.here: mother-in-law her
- Ruth 3:1חֲמוֹתָ֑הּchamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularOne day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?here: mother-in-law her
- Ruth 3:6חֲמוֹתָֽהּ׃chamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularSo she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.here: mother-in-law her
- Ruth 3:16חֲמוֹתָ֔הּchamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularWhen Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.here: mother-in-law her
- Ruth 3:17חֲמוֹתֵֽךְ׃chamotekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singularAnd she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”here: mother-in-law your