em H517

אֵם (em) means “mother” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אֵם Hebrew · H517 220 tagged occurrences in 202 verses

Pronunciation guide: ame Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0517

אֵם · em · mother

1) mother 1a) of humans 1b) of Deborah's relationship to the people (fig.) 1c) of animals 2) point of departure or division

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))

KJV glosses: dam, mother, [idiom] parting.

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How translators render H517

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
his mothers	29
and mother	22
his mother	19
or mother	14
mother	11
your mother	10
the mother	8
of your mother	6
to his mother	6
my mother	5
from my mothers	4
of his mother	4
of my mother	4
in its mothers	3
my mothers	3
your mothers	3
a mother	2
and her mother	2
and the mother	2
and your mother	2
his grandmother	2
is your mothers	2
of his mothers	2
of the mother	2
the mothers	2
their mothers	2
against her mother	1
and from my mothers	1
and mother goodbye	1
and mother had done	1
and she	1
and the mothers	1
and when his mothers	1
as a mother	1
at my mothers	1
but be sure to let the mother	1
for his mother	1
from his mothers	1
her mothers	1
his grandmothers	1
his mothers death	1
his own mothers	1
in my mothers	1
is his mother	1
is your mother	1
its mother	1
like mother	1
of their mothers	1
of your mothers	1
one of his mothers	1
our mothers	1
she	1
so that my mother	1
that is a mother	1
the fork	1
their mother	1
then his mother	1
to a mother	1
to my mothers	1
to their mothers	1
to your mothers	1
was the mother	1
was your mother	1
when mothers	1
when my mother	1
who	1
who was the mother	1
whose mother	1
will your mother	1
with his mother	1
your mothers daughter	1
your own mothers	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
and his mothers	22
and his mother	14
his mothers	12
the mother	11
mother	10
or his mother	8
and thy mother	7
of his mother	7
of thy mother	7
and her mother	5
and my mother	5
his mother	5
of my mother	5
thy mother	4
thy mothers	4
and mother	3
in his mothers	3
of his mothers	3
of thy mothers	3
unto his mother	3
for his mother	2
from my mothers	2
him to his mother	2
my mother	2
or for his mother	2
there and his mothers	2
to his mother	2
your mother	2
a mother	1
against her mother	1
and a mother	1
and concerning their mothers	1
and let thy mothers	1
and like his mother	1
and of my mother	1
and the dam	1
and the mother	1
and to her mother	1
and to his mother	1
at the parting	1
because she was the mother	1
bringeth his mother	1
did my mother	1
for their mother	1
he and his mother	1
her from my mothers	1
her mothers	1
him into my mothers	1
him unto his mother	1
into his mother	1
into their mothers	1
is me my mother	1
is your mother	1
it and his mother	1
it shall be with his dam	1
let the dam	1
me in my mothers	1
me out of my mothers	1
moreover his mother	1
nor mother	1
nor my mother	1
not thy mother	1
of her mother	1
of my mothers	1
of your mothers	1
or for mother	1
or for their mother	1
or that my mother	1
our mothers	1
shall i and thy mother	1
so shall thy mother	1
that his mother	1
the dam	1
thee into my mothers	1
their mother	1
them unto his mother	1
there thy mother	1
thine own mothers	1
to her mothers	1
to their mothers	1
under the dam	1
unto his mothers	1
unto my mothers	1
upon me my mothers	1
upon my mothers	1
upon them against the mother	1
wherein my mother	1
wherewith his mother	1
whom his mother	1
whose mothers	1
with your mother	1

Verses containing H517

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Genesis 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
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Genesis 3:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
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Genesis 20:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
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Genesis 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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Genesis 24:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
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Genesis 24:53 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.
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Genesis 24:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”
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Genesis 24:67 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
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Genesis 27:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
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Genesis 27:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
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Genesis 27:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
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Genesis 27:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
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Genesis 28:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
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Genesis 28:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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Genesis 28:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
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Genesis 29:10 · BSB · 3 occurrences
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
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Genesis 30:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
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Genesis 32:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
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Source alternate reference: 32.12
Genesis 37:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
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Genesis 43:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”
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Genesis 44:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
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Exodus 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
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Exodus 20:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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Exodus 21:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
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Exodus 21:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
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Exodus 22:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.
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Source alternate reference: 22.29
Exodus 23:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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Exodus 34:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
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Leviticus 18:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
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Leviticus 18:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
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Leviticus 18:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
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Leviticus 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
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Leviticus 20:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
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Leviticus 20:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.
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Leviticus 20:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.
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Leviticus 20:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.
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Leviticus 21:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,
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Leviticus 21:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.
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Leviticus 22:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the LORD.
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Leviticus 24:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
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Numbers 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even if his father or mother or brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because the symbol of consecration to his God is upon his head.
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Numbers 12:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
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Deuteronomy 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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Deuteronomy 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If your very own brother, 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,
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Source alternate reference: 13.7
Deuteronomy 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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Deuteronomy 21:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
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Deuteronomy 21:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
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Deuteronomy 21:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
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Deuteronomy 22:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
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Deuteronomy 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
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