225 occurrences

'Mother' in the Bible

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningSistersOther WivesSiblingsFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughterssisterhoodsarah

He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningLiving In The Wilderness

Then he brought out objects of silver and gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumandowryBetrothalGoldMarriage, Customs ConcerningOrnamentsMarriage, The BrideCosmeticsPresentsPeople Giving ClothesJewelleryjewelry

But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl stay with us for about 10 days. Then she can go.”

Verse ConceptsTen Or More DaysPeople Who Delayed

Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a man with smooth skin.

Verse ConceptsSkinSmoothnessHairy PeopleSmooth

His mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey me and go get them for me.”

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.

Verse ConceptsSavourinessLoving Other Things

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character Of

And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to Paddan-aram.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Kids

Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother Leah, Rachel asked, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Verse ConceptsWheat

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had?” he said. “Are your mother and brothers and I going to come and bow down to the ground before you?”

Verse ConceptsSalutationsBowing Before JosephWhat Is This?Immigrants

“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.

Verse ConceptsHonouring Parents

“When an ox, sheep, or goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days; from the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a gift, a fire offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysYoung AnimalAnimal MothersLess Than A Year OldSeven Days For Legal PurposesRegulating Sacrifices

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningFighting One AnotherMothers And Sons

He is not to defile himself for his father or mother, or his brother or sister, when they die, because the hair consecrated to his God is on his head.

Verse ConceptsLove Between RelativesNot Honouring Parents

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’—which neither you nor your fathers have known,

Verse ConceptsSecrecyEnticersUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsShow No MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenSiblingsMothers And SonsDeath Of A Motheratheism

remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.

Verse ConceptsMonthOne MonthMourning DeathDistinctive Clothing

his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.

Verse ConceptsGatesComing To Gates

“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

Verse ConceptsNestsEggsUnkindnessAnimals, Cruelty TowardsAnimal RightsYoung AnimalBirdswaterfalls

You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long.

Verse ConceptsAnimal LifeHow To Live Long

the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the gate.

Verse ConceptsTownComing To Gatesvirginity

‘The one who sleeps with his mother-in-law is cursed.’And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Verse ConceptsMothers, Responsibilities OfAmen

He said about his father and mother,“I do not regard them.”He disregarded his brothersand didn’t acknowledge his sons,for they kept Your wordand maintained Your covenant.

Verse ConceptsNeglecting PeopleNot Honouring ParentsMothers And Sons

that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and save us from death.”

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherFamily DeathProtecting Your Family

unless, when we enter the land, you tie this scarlet cord to the window through which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers, and all your father’s family into your house.

Verse ConceptsCordsRed CordsGathering Friends

So the young men who had scouted went in and brought out Rahab and her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

Verse ConceptsOpportunities, In LifeBringing People Out Of Other Places

Villages were deserted,they were deserted in Israel,until I, Deborah, arose,a mother in Israel.

Verse ConceptsDeborahVillagesSpiritual Mothers

Sisera’s mother looked through the window;she peered through the lattice, crying out:“Why is his chariot so long in coming?Why don’t I hear the hoofbeats of his horses?”

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldLooking Through WindowsPeople Who Delayed

So he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother! As the Lord lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenRestraints From Killinggideon

He went back and told his father and his mother: “I have seen a young Philistine woman in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningWedding FeastsLeaving Parents For Spouse

But his father and mother said to him, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines for a wife?”But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, because I want her.”

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBad Decision Making ExamplesMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningUncircumcisionInfatuationIntermarriageLeaving Parents For Spouse

Now his father and mother did not know this was from the Lord, who was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. At that time, the Philistines were ruling over Israel.

Verse ConceptsCaused By God

Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,

Verse ConceptsLionsVineyardChampionsIn Danger From Lions

the Spirit of the Lord took control of him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanStrength, SpiritualTranceBrawnAnimals Torn To PiecesDeliverance From LionsThose Who Did Not Tell

He scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. When he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had scooped the honey from the lion’s carcass.

Verse ConceptsFood DecayingThose Who Did Not Tell

So Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me and don’t love me! You told my people the riddle, but haven’t explained it to me.”“Look,” he said, “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

Verse ConceptsCryingPeople Mourning CatastropheThose Who Did Not TellHating Individuals

He said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver taken from you, and that I heard you utter a curse about—here, I have the silver with me. I took it. So now I return it to you.”Then his mother said, “My son, you are blessed by the Lord!”

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfUnder The BanMay God Bless!Money Blessingsmums

He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I personally consecrate the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image overlaid with silver.”

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took five pounds of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image overlaid with silver, and it was in Micah’s house.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenMetalworkersSkill

Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingFarewellsClinging To PeopleMother In Lawsgoodbyes

Boaz answered her, “Everything you have done for your mother-in-law since your husband’s death has been fully reported to me: how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you didn’t previously know.

Verse ConceptsMothers, Responsibilities OfRuthSelf DenialSelf SacrificeMother In LawsNot Knowing PeopleTelling What People DidDeath Of A Mother

She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Then she brought out what she had left over from her meal and gave it to her.

Verse ConceptsRemaining Food

Then her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you gather barley today, and where did you work? May the Lord bless the man who noticed you.”Ruth told her mother-in-law about the men she had worked with and said, “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz.”

Verse ConceptsWhere Are Things?May God Bless!Men Working

Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Verse ConceptsWheatLiving Together

Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, shouldn’t I find security for you, so that you will be taken care of?

Verse ConceptsSearchingFather And Daughter Relationships

She went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her.

Verse ConceptsObeying People

She went to her mother-in-law, Naomi, who asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?”Then Ruth told her everything the man had done for her.

Verse ConceptsWhat Manner?

She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, because he said, ‘Don’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsEmpty HandedOther Volume Measures

Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

Verse ConceptsGesturesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsMaternal LoveChildren, needs ofLove, And The WorldRobesDressPeople Giving ClothesEvery Yearmoms

Samuel declared:As your sword has made women childless,so your mother will be childless among women.Then he hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltySwordsPeople Cut In PiecesReasons For BarrennessKilling Kings

Then Saul became angry with Jonathan and shouted, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you are siding with Jesse’s son to your own shame and to the disgrace of your mother?

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

From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldRespect, For Human BeingsSanctity Of LifeRelations With ForeignersGrandmothers

Now Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in Joab’s place. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Israelite; Ithra had married Abigail daughter of Nahash. Abigail was a sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenNamed Sisters

Please let your servant return so that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him what seems good to you.”

Verse ConceptsHomeLove, And The WorldTombsResigned To DeathAnother's Burial Place

I am a peaceful person, one of the faithful in Israel, but you’re trying to destroy a city that is like a mother in Israel. Why would you devour the Lord’s inheritance?”

Verse ConceptsSpiritual MothersMotherhood

Then Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king and our lord David does not know it?

Verse ConceptsMothers Of KingsIgnorant Of FactsMothers And Sons

Now Adonijah son of Haggith came to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. She asked, “Do you come peacefully?”“Peacefully,” he replied,

Verse ConceptsMothers Of Kings

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, sat down on his throne, and had a throne placed for the king’s mother. So she sat down at his right hand.

Verse ConceptsQueensRespect, For Human BeingsThroneRight Sides

Then she said, “I have just one small request of you. Don’t turn me down.”“Go ahead and ask, mother,” the king replied, “for I won’t turn you down.”

Verse ConceptsSmallness

King Solomon answered his mother, “Why are you requesting Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my elder brother, you might as well ask the kingship for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah.”

Verse ConceptsBrothersThe Kingdom Of Others

The king responded, “Give the living baby to the first woman, and don’t kill him. She is his mother.”

Verse ConceptsMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsGrandparentsQueensDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous ThingsDeposingServing AsherahGrandmothersgrandmas

Then Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, “Look, your son is alive.”

Verse ConceptsLiving On

Elisha left the oxen, ran to follow Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother, and then I will follow you.”“Go on back,” he replied, “for what have I done to you?”

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingLove, And The WorldRespect, For Human BeingsUnquestioning ServiceParting From ParentsIndividuals Runninggoodbyes

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. He walked in the way of his father, in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Bad Parental ExamplesMothers, Examples OfMothers, Responsibilities OfImitating Wicked Kingsjezebel

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, but not like his father and mother, for he removed the sacred pillar of Baal his father had made.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisks

However, Elisha said to King Joram of Israel, “We have nothing in common. Go to the prophets of your father and your mother!”But the king of Israel replied, “No, because it is the Lord who has summoned these three kings to hand them over to Moab.”

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

Suddenly he complained to his father, “My head! My head!”His father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsPeople Carrying Live PeopleDeath Of A Motherhurting

The boy’s mother said to Elisha, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.

Verse ConceptsBeing A MotherCompanionshipMothers Love For Her Children

When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?”He answered, “What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and witchcraft from your mother Jezebel?”

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryMothers, Examples OfMothers Of KingsAvoid Sorcerywitchesjezebel

When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

Verse ConceptsInsecurityMothers Of KingsKilling Whole FamiliesKilling Sons And DaughtersGrandmothers

Jehoiachin king of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the king of Babylon.So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

Verse ConceptsNoblesKings of judahSurrender

Nebuchadnezzar deported Jehoiachin to Babylon. Also, he took the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyKings Exiled

Amasa’s mother was Abigail, and his father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah, who was the mother of Onam.

Caleb’s concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran fathered Gazez.

Caleb’s concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.

She was also the mother of Shaaph, Madmannah’s father, and of Sheva, the father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Achsah.

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez and said, “I gave birth to him in pain.”

King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Verse ConceptsGrandparentsQueensDestruction Of Satan's WorksGrandmothersgrandmas

When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.

Verse Conceptsroyalty

White and violet linen hangings were fastened with fine white and purple linen cords to silver rods on marble columns. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of red feldspar, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.

Verse ConceptsBedsTapestriesCordsWhite ClothsPurple ClothPavementsStone Items

Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she didn’t have a father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.

Verse ConceptsFatherless, Examples OfBeauty, In WomenAdoptionExamples Of OrphansWomen's RolesDeath Of A MotherFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers Responsibilities

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Μαρία Μαριάμ 
Maria 
Mary the mother of Jesus , Mary Magdalene , Mary the sister of Martha , Mary the mother of James , Mary the mother of John Mark , Mary of Rome
Usage: 52

πενθερά 
Penthera 
Usage: 3

אם 
'em 
Usage: 220

חמת חמות 
Chamowth 
mother in law
Usage: 11

ינק 
Yanaq 
Usage: 31

ἀμήτωρ 
ametor 
Usage: 1

μήτηρ 
meter 
Usage: 55

μητραλῴας 
metraloas 
Usage: 1

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