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Mother names 2 things on this site
- Mother, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Mother-in-law, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Featured studies
4 results- StudyThe Seven Brothers and Their MotherA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyEve: The Mother of All Living · MannaFestThe first woman, the first promise of a seed that would bruise the serpent, and the first funeral, read forward from Genesis 3 rather than backward from the Fall.
- StudySarah: Mother of Nations · MannaFestThe wife who laughed at the promise, was twice passed off as a sister, and is the only woman whose age at death Scripture records.
- StudyRachel and Leah: Genesis 29–35 · MannaFestTwo sisters married to one man, the tribes that came from each, and the weeping mother Jeremiah and Matthew both call by Rachel's name.
Verses
311 results- VerseLuke 1:60But his mother replied, “No! He shall be called John.”
- VerseJohn 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
- Verse1 Chronicles 2:48Caleb’s concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.
- VerseMark 3:33But Jesus replied, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”
- VerseMatthew 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
People
10 results- PersonMary (mother of Jesus)Present at the first sign in Cana and at the cross, where Jesus gave her into the beloved disciple's care (John 2; 19:26-27).
- PersonMary, Mother of JesusThe virgin of Nazareth who bore Jesus the Messiah by the Holy Spirit; sang the Magnificat; kept these things in her heart; stood at the cross and was among the praying church…
- PersonHagarSarah's Egyptian servant and mother of Ishmael; the first person to name God — “Thou God seest me” (El Roi, 16:13).
- PersonRebekahIsaac's bride, drawn from Abraham's kindred by providence (ch. 24); mother of the twins, who receives the oracle “the elder shall serve the younger.”
- PersonLeahJacob's unloved first wife, on whom the LORD's eye fell — the mother of Judah, the messianic tribe, and of Levi, the priestly tribe.
Words (Strong's)
19 results- WordH517 אֵם · ʼêm (Hebrew)a mother (as the bond of the family). The Hebrew word stands 220 times in the original text.
- WordG3384 μήτηρ · mḗtēr (Greek)a "mother" (literally or figuratively, immediate or remote). The Greek word stands 83 times in the original text.
- WordH2545 חֲמוֹת · chămôwth (Hebrew)a mother-in-law. The Hebrew word stands 11 times in the original text.
- WordG3994 πενθερά · pentherá (Greek)a wife's mother. The Greek word stands 6 times in the original text.
- WordG3389 μητραλῴας · mētralṓias (Greek)a mother-thresher, i.e. matricide. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
Themes
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2 resultsVoices
8 results- VoiceBonaventureHe was born Giovanni di Fidanza at Bagnoregio in central Italy, about 1217. The story he tells is that he was gravely ill as a small child and his mother prayed to Francis of…
- VoiceJohn ChrysostomJohn was born at Antioch about 347. His father Secundus, an army officer, died while he was an infant; his mother Anthusa was widowed at twenty and refused to remarry so she…
- VoiceBernard of ClairvauxBernard was born in 1090 at Fontaine-lès-Dijon in Burgundy, the third son of a knight. His mother died when he was seventeen and it broke something open in him. In 1113, aged…
- VoiceSadhu Sundar SinghSundar Singh was born into a devout Sikh family in the Punjab and lost his mother at fourteen. Grieving and angry, he burned a Bible in his courtyard in front of neighbors, and…
- VoiceTheodoret of CyrusTheodoret was born about 393 at Antioch. His mother, according to his own account, had been childless for years and had gone to a local hermit for prayer. He was raised around…
Apocrypha (study resources)
57 results- Study resource2 Maccabees 7:41Last of all after the sons the mother died.
- Study resource1 Esdras 4:25Wherefore a man loveth his wife better than father or mother.
- Study resourceSirach 3:4And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up treasure.
- Study resource2 Esdras 2:17Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.
- Study resourceSusanna 1:30So she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.
Doorways
Study a word
H517אֵם ʼêm — a mother (as the bond of the family)G3384μήτηρ mḗtēr — a "mother" (literally or figuratively,
immediate or remote)H2545חֲמוֹת chămôwth — a mother-in-lawG3994πενθερά pentherá — a wife's motherG3389μητραλῴας mētralṓias — a mother-thresher, i.e.
matricideH2859חָתַן châthan — to give (a daughter) away in marriage