'Mother' in the Bible

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father rejoice, but a foolish child is a grief to his mother.

A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

The one who robs his father and mother and says, "There is no transgression," is a companion to the one who destroys.

A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.

The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother -- the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

The words of King Lemuel, an oracle that his mother taught him: