'Mother' in the Bible

He makes the barren woman among her household a happy mother of joyful children. Hallelujah!

Instead, I have composed and quieted myself like a weaned child with its mother; I am like a weaned child.

When I was a son to my father, not yet strong and an only son to my mother,

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grieves his mother.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

It's better to meet a mother bear who has lost her cubs than a fool in his stupidity.

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

Whoever mistreats his father and alienates his mother is a son who brings both shame and disrespect.

Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the deepest darkness.

Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.

Let your father and mother rejoice; make the one who gave birth to you happy.

Whoever steals from his father or mother but claims, "It's no sin," is a companion to someone who demolishes.

The rod and rebuke bestow wisdom, but an undisciplined child brings shame to his mother.

The eye that mocks a father and looks with a disobedient attitude at a mother the valley ravens will pluck it out; and vultures will eat it.

The words of King Lemuel a pronouncement with which his mother encouraged him.

Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit in the womb of a pregnant mother, so also you do not know what God is doing in everything he makes.

Come out, young women of Zion, and see King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day his day of great delight.

but my dove, my perfect one, is unique. She's unique to her mother, she's pure to the one who gave birth to her. Young women see her and call her blessed, queens and mistresses praise her.

I would lead you, I would bring you to the house of my mother who used to teach me. I would give you some spiced wine to drink, from the juice of my pomegranates.

Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? Under theapple tree I awakened you. There your mother had gone into labor with you; there she went into labor and gave birth to you.

for before the young lad knows how to call out to his father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."

Like a shepherd, he tends his flock. He gathers the lambs in his arms, carries them close to his heart, and gently leads the mother sheep."

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! It's because of your sins that you were sold, and because of your transgressions that your mother was sent away.

Like a child whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

Say to the king and the queen mother, "Come take a lowly seat, because your beautiful crowns have fallen off your heads."

I'll make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At noontime I'll send a destroyer against the mother of a young man. I'll cause terror and anguish to come to her unexpectedly.

How terrible for me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of strife and contention for the whole land! I've neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

They won't break bread for the mourner to be consoled for the dead. They won't give anyone the cup of consolation to drink for his father or mother.

Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.

because he didn't kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.

I'll hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into another land where you were not born, and there you will die.

after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the palace officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths left Jerusalem.

your mother will be greatly devastated, she who gave birth to you will be ashamed. She will become the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

You are to declare, "This is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: "Your birth place was the territory that belonged to the Canaanites. Your father was an Ammonite and your mother was a Hittite.

"Now, everyone who likes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, "Like mother, like daughter.'

You're the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You're the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children.

"Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite. Your elder sister was Samaria. She and her daughters lived in the north, while your younger sister who lived in the south with her daughters was Sodom.

Tell them: "What a lioness your mother was among lions! She reared her cubs in the midst of fierce young males.

"Your mother was like a vine entwining a pomegranate, planted by water, full of fruit, and full of branches because it had been watered generously.

"Son of Man, here are two sisters who are daughters from the same mother.

They are not to come in contact with a dead body, so they don't defile themselves, except in the case of their father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or for an unmarried sister, on whose behalf they may defile themselves.

"Call your mother to account, call her for she is not my wife, and I'm not her husband. Let her do away with her seductive looks and remove her adultery from between her breasts.

Indeed, their mother has committed prostitution the one who has been conceiving them has acted disgracefully when she said, "I'm going after my lovers, who provide me food and water, as well as my wool, my flax, my oil, and my wine.'

So you will stumble during the day, the prophet also will stumble with you at night, and I will destroy your mother.

The son disrespects his father, the daughter rebels against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's enemies are the people of his own house.

It will also come about that if any man would dare to prophesy, then his father and his mother who bore him will respond to him, "You will not live, because you are speaking lies in the name of the LORD.' Then his father and mother who bore him will stab him for prophesying.