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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H517

אֵם

emame

mother

220 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼêm

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H517is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 27 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 99
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H517

a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))

The King James renders it: dam, mother, [idiom] parting.

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

em is rendered "mother". It stands 220 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-seven books.

  • Twenty-six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
  • The Greek text spells it ninety-nine different ways.

The first use

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Genesis 2:24אִמּ֑וֹ

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 his73
  • mother your31
  • mother my20
  • mother of15
  • and mother his14
  • to mother his7
  • mother its6
  • a mother5
  • mother her5
  • and mother your4
  • and mother her3
  • and mother my3

and 25 more, 220 uses in all

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.

All 220, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

99 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

  • אִמּ֔וֹ36
  • אִמּ֑וֹ11
  • אֵ֥ם8
  • אִמּֽוֹ׃8
  • אִמֶּֽךָ׃6
  • אֵ֣ם5
  • אִמִּֽי׃5
  • אִמֶּ֑ךָ5
  • אִמּוֹ֙4
  • אִמּ֖וֹ4
  • אִמִּ֖י4
  • לְאִמּ֑וֹ4

and 87 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular79HNcfsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular25HNcfsc/Sp2ms
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular23HNcfsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)16HNcfsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular14HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular8HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · feminine singular7HNcfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular6HC/R/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular5HNcfsc/Sp3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HC/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular3HC/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HC/Ncfsc/Sp3fs

Genesis

twenty-six uses
  • For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

    Genesis 2:24

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.

    Genesis 3:20

    • אֵ֥םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.

    Genesis 20:12

    • אִמִּ֑יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

    Genesis 21:21

    • אִמּ֛וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

    Genesis 24:28

    • אִמָּ֑הּʾimahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother her
  • Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.

    Genesis 24:53

    • וּלְאִמָּֽהּ׃uleimahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and to mother her
  • But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”

    Genesis 24:55

    • וְאִמָּ֔הּveimahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and mother her
  • And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

    Genesis 24:67

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ פʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

    Genesis 27:11

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

    Genesis 27:13

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

    Genesis 27:14

    • לְאִמּ֑וֹleimopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to mother his
    • אִמּוֹ֙ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

    Genesis 27:29

    • אִמֶּ֑ךָʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

    Genesis 28:2

    • אִמֶּ֑ךָʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
    • אִמֶּֽךָ׃ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

    Genesis 28:5

    • אֵ֥םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

    Genesis 28:7

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

    Genesis 29:10

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

    Genesis 30:14

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

    Genesis 32:11

    • אֵ֖םʾemnoun · feminine singulartagged: mother
  • He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

    Genesis 37:10

    • וְאִמְּךָ֣veimekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and mother your
  • When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

    Genesis 43:29

    • אִמּוֹ֒ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

    Genesis 44:20

    • לְאִמּ֖וֹleimopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to mother his

Exodus

seven uses
  • “Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

    Exodus 2:8

    • אֵ֥םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

    Exodus 20:12

    • אִמֶּ֑ךָʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.

    Exodus 21:15

    • וְאִמּ֖וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

    Exodus 21:17

    • וְאִמּ֖וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.

    Exodus 22:30

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother its
  • Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

    Exodus 23:19

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ סʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother its
  • Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

    Exodus 34:26

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ פʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother its

Leviticus

fifteen uses
  • You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

    Leviticus 18:7

    • אִמְּךָ֖ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
    • אִמְּךָ֣ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

    Leviticus 18:9

    • אִמֶּ֔ךָʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.

    Leviticus 18:13

    • אִמְּךָ֖ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
    • אִמְּךָ֖ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:3

    • אִמּ֤וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.

    Leviticus 20:9

    • אִמּ֖וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
    • וְאִמּ֛וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

    Leviticus 20:14

    • אִמָּ֖הּʾimahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother her
  • If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.

    Leviticus 20:17

    • אִ֠מּוֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

    Leviticus 20:19

    • אִמְּךָ֛ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,

    Leviticus 21:2

    • לְאִמּ֣וֹleimopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for mother his
  • He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

    Leviticus 21:11

    • וּלְאִמּ֖וֹuleimoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and for mother his
  • “When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    Leviticus 22:27

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother its
  • The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

    Leviticus 24:11

    • אִמּ֛וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

Numbers

two uses
  • Even if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the crown of consecration to his God is upon his head.

    Numbers 6:7

    • וּלְאִמּ֗וֹuleimoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and for mother his
  • Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

    Numbers 12:12

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

Deuteronomy

thirteen uses
  • Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

    Deuteronomy 5:16

    • אִמֶּ֔ךָʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,

    Deuteronomy 13:6

    • אִ֠מֶּךָʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

    Deuteronomy 14:21

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ פʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother its
  • and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

    Deuteronomy 21:13

    • אִמָּ֖הּʾimahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother her
  • If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

    Deuteronomy 21:18

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

    Deuteronomy 21:19

    • וְאִמּ֑וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

    Deuteronomy 22:6

    • וְהָאֵ֤םvehaemconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the mother
    • הָאֵ֖םhaemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the mother
  • You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

    Deuteronomy 22:7

    • הָאֵ֔םhaemthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the mother
  • Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate

    Deuteronomy 22:15

    • וְאִמָּ֑הּveimahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and mother her
  • ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

    Deuteronomy 27:16

    • וְאִמּ֑וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

    Deuteronomy 27:22

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.

    Deuteronomy 33:9

    • וּלְאִמּוֹ֙uleimoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and of mother his

Joshua

three uses
  • that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”

    Joshua 2:13

    • אִמִּ֗יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.

    Joshua 2:18

    • אִמֵּ֜ךְʾimekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: mother your
  • So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

    Joshua 6:23

    • אִמָּ֤הּʾimahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother her

Judges

twenty uses
  • Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

    Judges 5:7

    • אֵ֖םʾemnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mother
  • Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’

    Judges 5:28

    • אֵ֥םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • “They were my brothers,” Gideon replied, “the sons of my mother! As surely as the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

    Judges 8:19

    • אִמִּ֖יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

    Judges 9:1

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
    • אִמּ֖וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • And when his mother’s brothers spoke all these words about him in the presence of all the leaders of Shechem, their hearts were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”

    Judges 9:3

    • אִמּ֜וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”

    Judges 14:2

    • וּלְאִמּ֔וֹuleimoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and to mother his
  • But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”

    Judges 14:3

    • וְאִמּ֗וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • (Now his father and mother did not know this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines; for at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.)

    Judges 14:4

    • וְאִמּ֜וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,

    Judges 14:5

    • וְאִמּ֖וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

    Judges 14:6

    • וּלְאִמּ֔וֹuleimoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and to mother his
  • So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.

    Judges 14:9

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

    Judges 14:16

    • וּלְאִמִּ֛יuleimiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to mother my
  • Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

    Judges 16:17

    • אִמִּ֑יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”

    Judges 17:2

    • לְאִמּ֡וֹleimopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to mother his
    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”

    Judges 17:3

    • לְאִמּ֑וֹleimopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to mother his
    • אִמּ֡וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

    Judges 17:4

    • לְאִמּ֑וֹleimopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to mother his
    • אִמּוֹ֩ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

Ruth

two uses
  • Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.

    Ruth 1:8

    • אִמָּ֑הּʾimahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: mother 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.

    Ruth 2:11

    • וְאִמֵּ֗ךְveimekhconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and mother your

1 Samuel

four uses
  • Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

    1 Samuel 2:19

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

    1 Samuel 15:33

    • אִמֶּ֑ךָʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?

    1 Samuel 20:30

    • אִמֶּֽךָ׃ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”

    1 Samuel 22:3

    • וְאִמִּי֙veimiconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and mother my

2 Samuel

three uses
  • Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

    2 Samuel 17:25

    • אֵ֥םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”

    2 Samuel 19:37

    • וְאִמִּ֑יveimiconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and mother my
  • I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel, but you are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the LORD’s inheritance?”

    2 Samuel 20:19

    • וְאֵם֙veemconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a mother

1 Kings

sixteen uses
  • Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?

    1 Kings 1:11

    • אֵם־ʾem-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Now Adonijah son of Haggith went to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she asked, “Do you come in peace?” “Yes, in peace,” he replied.

    1 Kings 2:13

    • אֵם־ʾem-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.

    1 Kings 2:19

    • לְאֵ֣םleempreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for mother of
  • “I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”

    1 Kings 2:20

    • אִמִּ֔יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O mother my
  • King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”

    1 Kings 2:22

    • לְאִמּ֗וֹleimopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to mother his
  • Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”

    1 Kings 3:27

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,

    1 Kings 11:26

    • אִמּוֹ֙ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

    1 Kings 14:21

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.

    1 Kings 14:31

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

    1 Kings 15:2

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

    1 Kings 15:10

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    1 Kings 15:13

    • אִמּ֗וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.

    1 Kings 17:23

    • לְאִמּ֑וֹleimopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to mother his
  • So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”

    1 Kings 19:20

    • וּלְאִמִּ֔יuleimiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and to mother my
  • Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

    1 Kings 22:42

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.

    1 Kings 22:52

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

2 Kings

twenty-two uses
  • And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

    2 Kings 3:2

    • וּכְאִמּ֑וֹukheimoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and like mother his
  • Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your mother!” “No,” replied the king of Israel, “for it is the LORD who has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

    2 Kings 3:13

    • אִמֶּ֑ךָʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • “My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

    2 Kings 4:19

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

    2 Kings 4:20

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.

    2 Kings 4:30

    • אֵ֣םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

    2 Kings 8:26

    • אִמּוֹ֙ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”

    2 Kings 9:22

    • אִמְּךָ֛ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

    2 Kings 11:1

    • אֵ֣םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

    2 Kings 12:1

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

    2 Kings 14:2

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

    2 Kings 15:2

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.

    2 Kings 15:33

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

    2 Kings 18:2

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

    2 Kings 21:1

    • אִמּ֖וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

    2 Kings 21:19

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

    2 Kings 22:1

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

    2 Kings 23:31

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.

    2 Kings 23:36

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.

    2 Kings 24:8

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.

    2 Kings 24:12

    • וְאִמּ֔וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

    2 Kings 24:15

    • אֵ֣םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

    2 Kings 24:18

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • Ram his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah, who was the mother of Onam.

    1 Chronicles 2:26

    • אֵ֥םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”

    1 Chronicles 4:9

    • וְאִמּ֗וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his

2 Chronicles

twelve uses
  • Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

    2 Chronicles 12:13

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

    2 Chronicles 13:2

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    2 Chronicles 15:16

    • אֵ֣ם׀ʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

    2 Chronicles 20:31

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

    2 Chronicles 22:2

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.

    2 Chronicles 22:3

    • אִמּ֛וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.

    2 Chronicles 22:10

    • אֵ֣םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

    2 Chronicles 24:1

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 25:1

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 26:3

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

    2 Chronicles 27:1

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

    2 Chronicles 29:1

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

Esther

two uses
  • And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

    Esther 2:7

    • וָאֵ֑םvaemconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a mother
    • וְאִמָּ֔הּveimahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and mother her

Job

three uses
  • saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

    Job 1:21

    • אִמִּ֗יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

    Job 17:14

    • אִמִּ֥יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O mother my
  • though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

    Job 31:18

    • אִמִּ֣יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my

Psalms

twelve uses
  • Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

    Psalms 22:9

    • אִמִּֽי׃ʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.

    Psalms 22:10

    • אִ֝מִּ֗יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.

    Psalms 27:10

    • וְאִמִּ֣יveimiconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and mother my
  • I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

    Psalms 35:14

    • אֵ֝֗םʾemnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mother
  • You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

    Psalms 50:20

    • אִ֝מְּךָ֗ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

    Psalms 51:5

    • אִמִּֽי׃ʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

    Psalms 69:8

    • אִמִּֽי׃ʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.

    Psalms 71:6

    • אִ֭מִּיʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

    Psalms 109:14

    • אִ֝מּ֗וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

    Psalms 113:9

    • אֵֽם־ʾem-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

    Psalms 131:2

    • אִמּ֑וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

    Psalms 139:13

    • אִמִּֽי׃ʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my

Proverbs

fourteen uses
  • Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

    Proverbs 1:8

    • אִמֶּֽךָ׃ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,

    Proverbs 4:3

    • אִמִּֽי׃ʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

    Proverbs 6:20

    • אִמֶּֽךָ׃ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

    Proverbs 10:1

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

    Proverbs 15:20

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

    Proverbs 19:26

    • אֵ֑םʾemnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mother
  • Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.

    Proverbs 20:20

    • וְאִמּ֑וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

    Proverbs 23:22

    • אִמֶּֽךָ׃ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!

    Proverbs 23:25

    • וְאִמֶּ֑ךָveimekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and mother your
  • He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.

    Proverbs 28:24

    • וְאִמּ֗וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
  • A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

    Proverbs 29:15

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

    Proverbs 30:11

    • אִ֝מּ֗וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother its
  • As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

    Proverbs 30:17

    • אֵ֥םʾemnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mother
  • These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:

    Proverbs 31:1

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.

    Ecclesiastes 5:15

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

Song of Solomon

seven uses
  • Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.

    Song of Solomon 1:6

    • אִמִּ֣יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.

    Song of Solomon 3:4

    • אִמִּ֔יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

    Song of Solomon 3:11

    • אִמּוֹ֙ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.

    Song of Solomon 6:9

    • לְאִמָּ֔הּleimahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: of mother her
  • O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

    Song of Solomon 8:1

    • אִמִּ֑יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

    Song of Solomon 8:2

    • אִמִּ֖יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.

    Song of Solomon 8:5

    • אִמֶּ֔ךָʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your

Isaiah

five uses
  • For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

    Isaiah 8:4

    • וְאִמִּ֑יveimiconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and O mother my
  • Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

    Isaiah 49:1

    • אִמִּ֖יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

    Isaiah 50:1

    • אִמְּכֶם֙ʾimekhemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: mother your
    • אִמְּכֶֽם׃ʾimekhemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: mother your
  • As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

    Isaiah 66:13

    • אִמּ֖וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

Jeremiah

nine uses
  • I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

    Jeremiah 15:8

    • אֵ֛םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a mother of
  • Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

    Jeremiah 15:10

    • אִמִּ֔יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: O mother my
  • For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

    Jeremiah 16:3

    • אִמֹּתָ֞םʾimotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: mothers their
  • No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

    Jeremiah 16:7

    • אִמּֽוֹ׃ʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his
  • Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

    Jeremiah 20:14

    • אִמִּ֖יʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

    Jeremiah 20:17

    • אִמִּי֙ʾiminoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: mother my
  • I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.

    Jeremiah 22:26

    • אִמְּךָ֙ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

    Jeremiah 50:12

    • אִמְּכֶם֙ʾimekhemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: mother your
  • Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

    Jeremiah 52:1

    • אִמּ֔וֹʾimonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: mother his

Lamentations

three uses
  • They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

    Lamentations 2:12

    • לְאִמֹּתָם֙leimotampreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to mothers their
    • אִמֹּתָֽם׃ סʾimotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: mothers their
  • We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

    Lamentations 5:3

    • אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּʾimoteinunoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: mothers our

Ezekiel

ten uses
  • and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

    Ezekiel 16:3

    • וְאִמֵּ֥ךְveimekhconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and mother your
  • Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

    Ezekiel 16:44

    • כְּאִמָּ֖הkeimahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: like mother her
  • You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

    Ezekiel 16:45

    • אִמֵּ֣ךְʾimekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: mother your
    • אִמְּכֶ֣ןʾimekhennoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: mother your
  • and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

    Ezekiel 19:2

    • אִמְּךָ֙ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.

    Ezekiel 19:10

    • אִמְּךָ֥ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

    Ezekiel 21:21

    • אֵ֣םʾemnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mother of
  • Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

    Ezekiel 22:7

    • וָאֵם֙vaemconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and mother
  • “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,

    Ezekiel 23:2

    • אֵם־ʾem-noun · feminine singulartagged: a mother
  • A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,

    Ezekiel 44:25

    • וּ֠לְאֵםuleemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and for a mother

Hosea

four uses
  • Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

    Hosea 2:2

    • בְאִמְּכֶם֙veimekhempreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: with mother your
  • For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

    Hosea 2:5

    • אִמָּ֔םʾimamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: mother their
  • You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

    Hosea 4:5

    • אִמֶּֽךָ׃ʾimekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: mother your
  • the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

    Hosea 10:14

    • אֵ֥םʾemnoun · feminine singulartagged: mother

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.

    Micah 7:6

    • בְאִמָּ֔הּveimahpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: on mother her

Zechariah

two uses
  • And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.’ When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.

    Zechariah 13:3

    • וְאִמּ֤וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his
    • וְאִמּ֛וֹveimoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and mother his

The letters

Gematria 41· 601 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

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