Reference: Mother
American
The Hebrew words AM and AB, mother and father, are simple and easy sounds for infant lips, like mamma and papa in English. See ABBA. "Before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and My mother," Isa 8:4. In addition to the usual meaning of "mother," AM sometimes signifies in the Bible grandmother, 1Ki 15:10, or some remote female ancestor, Ge 3:20. It is put for a chief city, 2Sa 20:19; for a benefactress, Jg 5:7; for a nation, as in the expressive English phrase, "the mother country," Isa 3:12; 49:23. The fond affection of a mother is often referred to in Scripture; and God has employed it to illustrate his tender love for his people, Isa 49:15. Mothers are endowed with an all-powerful control over their offspring; and most men of eminence in the world have acknowledged their great indebtedness to maternal influence. When Bonaparte asked Madame Campan what the French nation most needed, she replied in one word, "Mothers." The Christian church already owes much, and will owe infinitely more, to the love, patience, zeal, and self-devotion of mothers in training their children for Christ.
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Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
"The peasantry ceased, they ceased in Israel, Until I, Deborah, arose, Until I arose, a mother in Israel.
"I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city, even a mother in Israel Why would you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?"
He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray And confuse the direction of your paths.
for before the boy knows how to cry out 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."
"Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.
"Kings will be your guardians, And their princesses your nurses They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth And lick the dust of your feet; And you will know that I am the LORD; Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.
Fausets
Honored in Israel as she is not in the East generally; one superiority of Judaism over other contemporary systems (1Ki 2:19). King Solomon rose up to meet and bowed himself unto Bathsheba, and set her on his right hand (Le 19:3). Figuratively, a city is mother of the surrounding villages its daughters (Jos 15:45; 2Sa 20:19). Ezekiel (Eze 21:21) uses "mother of the way" for the parting of the way into two roads which branch from it, as from a common parent; however, Havernick, from a Arabic idiom, translated it as "the highway."
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'Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.
So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.
"For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver.
Hastings
Morish
The law commanded that honour was to be paid to a mother as well as to a father. In nearly all cases the mothers of the kings of Israel are mentioned as well as the fathers. The wise woman who appealed to Joab as 'a mother in Israel,' was at once listened to. 2Sa 20:19. A mother has naturally great influence over her children, whether for good or evil, as Jochebed the mother of Moses, and Jezebel the mother of Athaliah. The children of the virtuous woman arise and call her blessed. Pr 31:28. Timothy had a faithful mother and grandmother. 2Ti 1:5. There are also 'mothers' in the church, who have the Lord's interests at heart in the welfare of the saints, as Paul called the mother of Rufus his own mother also. Ro 16:13.
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"I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city, even a mother in Israel Why would you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?"
Her children rise up and bless her; Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:
Greet Rufus, a choice man in the Lord, also his mother and mine.
For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.
Smith
Mother.
The superiority of the Hebrew over all contemporaneous systems of legislation and of morals is strongly shown in the higher estimation of the mother in the Jewish family, as contrasted with modern Oriental as well as ancient Oriental and classical usage. The king's mother, as appears in the case of Bath-sheba, was treated with special honor.
Ex 20:12; Le 19:3; De 5:16; 21:18,21; 1Ki 2:29; Pr 10:1; 15:20; 17:25; 29:15; 31:1,30
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"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
'Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.
'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the LORD your God gives you.
"If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,
"Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear.
The proverbs of Solomon A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.
A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.
A foolish son is a grief to his father And bitterness to her who bore him.
The rod and reproof give wisdom, But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.
The words of King Lemuel, the oracle which his mother taught him:
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.