42 occurrences

'Mother's' in the Bible

The young woman ran and told her mother's household all about these things.

Verse ConceptsRunning With NewsDevout mothers

Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

Verse ConceptsMarrying RelativesTaking A WifeFathers And Daughters

When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, he said, "Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?" Then he said, "May God be gracious to you, my son."

Verse ConceptsCourteousnessDivine FavourSalutationsThe Youngest ChildSeeing PeopleMothers And Sons

We said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofJacob, Life And Character OfPrejudiceSole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Who LovedExamples Of Love For Children

The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodMilkEcologyYoung AnimalAnimal MothersFirst fruits

"The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodMilkEcologyYoung AnimalAnimal MothersFirst fruits

You must not have sexual intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual intercourse with either of them.

Verse ConceptsSistersForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness UncoveredSiblingsSame Sex MarriageFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughters

You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's flesh.

Verse ConceptsForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness Uncovered

You must not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister and your father's sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltForbidden Sexual RelationshipsNakedness Uncovered

The Israelite woman's son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, Examples OfGod, The LordProfaning God's NameCursing God

Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother's womb!"

Verse ConceptsAbortionCondition Of The Body

You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork

Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother's relatives. He said to them and to his mother's entire extended family,

Verse ConceptsPlotting

His mother's relatives spoke on his behalf to all the leaders of Shechem and reported his proposal. The leaders were drawn to Abimelech; they said, "He is our close relative."

Verse ConceptsPeople Following PeopleCitizens

Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother's home! May the Lord show you the same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands and to me!

Verse ConceptsKindnessMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

Saul became angry with Jonathan and said to him, "You stupid traitor! Don't I realize that to your own disgrace and to the disgrace of your mother's nakedness you have chosen this son of Jesse?

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanTemperAnger, Sinful ExamplesAnger Of Man, UnrighteousAnger Of Man, CauseChoosing PeopleNamed People Angry With OthersShame Has Comerebellion

Elisha said to the king of Israel, "Why are you here? Go to your father's prophets or your mother's prophets!" The king of Israel replied to him, "No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab."

Verse ConceptsThree MenWhat Have We In Common?Given Into One's HandsGod Will Cause DefeatProphets Of Other Gods

Jehu encountered the relatives of King Ahaziah of Judah. He asked, "Who are you?" They replied, "We are Ahaziah's relatives. We have come down to see how the king's sons and the queen mother's sons are doing."

Verse ConceptsQueensRelatives

He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

Verse Concepts50 To 70 YearsAge When CrownedMothers Of Kings

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History Of50 To 70 YearsAge When Crowned

because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

Verse ConceptsBirth ControlWomb

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow!

Verse ConceptsGuidance, From Godly PeopleAdoption

I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother's womb you have been my God.

Verse ConceptsBaby dedicationFrom The WombFrom BirthYou Are Our GodScoffers

May his ancestors' sins be remembered by the Lord! May his mother's sin not be forgotten!

Verse ConceptsGod Not Forgiving

Just as he came forth from his mother's womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil.

Verse ConceptsNudityBabiesHow Death Is InevitableNaked In OriginNew Born

Scarcely had I passed them by when I found my beloved! I held onto him tightly and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother's house, to the bedroom chamber of the one who conceived me.

Verse ConceptsPrivate RoomsSoulmates

The Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how I wish you were my little brother, nursing at my mother's breasts; if I saw you outside, I could kiss you -- surely no one would despise me!

Verse ConceptsSibling Lovebreasts

I would lead you and bring you to my mother's house, the one who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

Verse ConceptsPomegranatesLove And Wine

Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother's breast!

Verse ConceptsWeaningGod TeachingSchoolbreaststryingdoctrine

This is what the Lord says: "Where is your mother's divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.

Verse ConceptsCreditdivorce, in OTCertificate of divorceBuying and sellingImperfection, And God's PurposesMarriage, Between God And His PeopleMothers, As A SymbolBills Of DivorceMothers

For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother's womb my grave forever.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheUnborn FetusesInadequate BurialsApproval To Kill OneselfDeath Of A MotherGrandmothers

Why did I ever come forth from my mother's womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

Verse ConceptsSorrowRegretting BirthShame Will ComeWhy Does This Happen?

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

Verse ConceptsTen To Fourteen YearsAge When CrownedMothers Of Kings

Now standing beside Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveLove, And The WorldExamples Of Mothers' LoveThe CrossDeath Of A MotherJesus Deathcrucifixion

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