'Mother' in the Bible

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!"

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

But Rebekah's brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go."

They blessed Rebekah with these words: "Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies."

Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

"But Esau my brother is a hairy man," Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, "and I have smooth skin!

So his mother told him, "Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!"

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed."

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some of your son's mandrakes."

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, "What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?"

Two sons were born to Joseph before the famine came. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, was their mother.