Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2545
חֲמוֹת
chamothkham-oth'
mother-in-law
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chămôwth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2545is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2545
a mother-in-law
The King James renders it: mother in law.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chamoth is rendered "mother-in-law". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Ruth, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ruth 1:14Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
Ruth 1:14לַחֲמוֹתָ֔הּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- mother-in-law her6
- mother-in-law your2
- to mother-in-law her2
- on mother-in-law her1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֲמוֹר | chamor | donkey | Uses96 |
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חֲמוֹתָֽהּ׃2
- בַּחֲמֹתָ֑הּ1
- חֲמוֹתָ֖הּ1
- חֲמוֹתָ֜הּ1
- חֲמוֹתָ֑הּ1
- חֲמוֹתָ֔הּ1
- חֲמוֹתֵ֔ךְ1
- חֲמוֹתֵֽךְ׃1
- לַחֲמוֹתָ֔הּ1
- לַחֲמוֹתָ֗הּ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular6HNcfsc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HNcfsc/Sp2fs
Ruth
ten uses
Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
- לַחֲמוֹתָ֔הּlachamotahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to mother-in-law her
Boaz 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.
- חֲמוֹתֵ֔ךְchamotekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law your
She 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.
- חֲמוֹתָ֖הּchamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law her
Then 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.
- חֲמוֹתָ֜הּchamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law her
- לַחֲמוֹתָ֗הּlachamotahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to mother-in-law her
So 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.
- חֲמוֹתָֽהּ׃chamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law her
One 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?
- חֲמוֹתָ֑הּchamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law her
So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.
- חֲמוֹתָֽהּ׃chamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law her
When 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.
- חֲמוֹתָ֔הּchamotahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law her
And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
- חֲמוֹתֵֽךְ׃chamotekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law your
Micah
one use
For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
- בַּחֲמֹתָ֑הּbachamotahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: on mother-in-law her
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.