'Mother' in the Bible

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.

Whoso robbeth his father and his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.

The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;

The eye that mocketh at a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him:

Go forth, daughters of Zion, And behold king Solomon With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.

My dove, mine undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother, She is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and they called her blessed; The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! Should I find thee without, I would kiss thee; And they would not despise me.

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awoke thee under the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth that bore thee.

For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? Or to his mother, What hast thou brought forth?

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples from afar. Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Their widows are increased to me more than the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a spoiler at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall upon her suddenly.

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Nor shall they break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall they give them the cup of consolations to drink for their father or for their mother.

Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!

because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!

And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

Your mother hath been sorely put to shame; she that bore you hath been covered with reproach: behold, she is become hindmost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall speak in a proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter!

Thou art the daughter of thy mother that loathed her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.

Thy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.

And they shall come at no dead person to become unclean; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may become unclean.

Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.

And a tumult shall arise among thy peoples, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with the children.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: a man's enemies are the men of his own household.

And it shall come to pass, if any shall yet prophesy, that his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was thus: His mother, Mary, that is, having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit.

And having come into the house they saw the little child with Mary his mother, and falling down did him homage. And having opened their treasures, they offered to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to thee the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it.

And, having arisen, he took to him the little child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt.

Arise, take to thee the little child and its mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they who sought the life of the little child are dead.

And he arose and took to him the little child and its mother, and came into the land of Israel;

For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

But while he was yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren are standing without, seeking to speak to thee.

But he answering said to him that spoke to him, Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?

And, stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren;

for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?

But she, being set on by her mother, says, Give me here upon a dish the head of John the baptist.

and his head was brought upon a dish, and was given to the damsel, and she carried it to her mother.

For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:

and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

Honour thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.

among whom was Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

And his brethren and his mother come, and standing without sent to him calling him.

And a crowd sat around him. And they said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren seek thee without.

And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother or my brethren?

And looking around in a circuit at those that were sitting around him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren:

for whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

And they derided him. But he, having put them all out, takes with him the father of the child, and the mother, and those that were with him, and enters in where the child was lying.

And she went out, and said to her mother, What should I ask? And she said, The head of John the baptist.

and brought his head upon a dish, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.

But ye say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by ...

And ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother;

For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,

Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.

Jesus answering said, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,

And there were women also looking on from afar off, among whom were both Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

And Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was put.

And the sabbath being now past, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices that they might come and embalm him.

And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

And his mother answering said, No; but he shall be called John.

And his father and mother wondered at the things which were said concerning him.

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo, this child is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;

And when they saw him they were amazed: and his mother said to him, Child, why hast thou dealt thus with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee distressed.

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and he was in subjection to them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart.

And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city was with her.

And the dead sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother.

And his mother and his brethren came to him, and could not get to him because of the crowd.

And it was told him saying, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, wishing to see thee.

But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.

And when he came to the house he suffered no one to go in but Peter and John and James and the father of the child and the mother.

father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

Now it was Mary of Magdala, and Johanna, and Mary the mother of James, and the others with them, who told these things to the apostles.

And on the third day a marriage took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

And wine being deficient, the mother of Jesus says to him, They have no wine.

His mother says to the servants, Whatever he may say to you, do.

After this he descended to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples; and there they abode not many days.

Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born being old? can he enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born?