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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

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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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  1. Proverbs 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

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  2. Proverbs 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,

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  3. Proverbs 6:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

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  4. Proverbs 10:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  5. Proverbs 15:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

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  6. Proverbs 19:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

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  7. Proverbs 20:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  8. Proverbs 23:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  9. Proverbs 23:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!

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  10. Proverbs 28:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.

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  11. Proverbs 29:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

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  12. Proverbs 30:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

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  13. Proverbs 30:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

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  14. Proverbs 31:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:

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  15. Ecclesiastes 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.

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    Source alternate reference: 5.14

  16. Song of Solomon 1:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.

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  17. Song of Solomon 3:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.

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  18. Song of Solomon 3:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

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  19. Song of Solomon 6:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.

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  20. Song of Solomon 8:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

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  21. Song of Solomon 8:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  22. Song of Solomon 8:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.

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  23. Isaiah 8:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

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  24. Isaiah 49:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

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  25. Isaiah 50:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

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  26. Isaiah 66:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

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  27. Jeremiah 15:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

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  28. Jeremiah 15:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

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  29. Jeremiah 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

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  30. Jeremiah 16:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

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  31. Jeremiah 20:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

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  32. Jeremiah 20:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

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  33. Jeremiah 22:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.

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  34. Jeremiah 50:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

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  35. Jeremiah 52:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

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  36. Lamentations 2:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

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  37. Lamentations 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

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  38. Ezekiel 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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  39. Ezekiel 16:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

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  40. Ezekiel 16:45 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

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  41. Ezekiel 19:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

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  42. Ezekiel 19:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.

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  43. Ezekiel 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

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    Source alternate reference: 21.26

  44. Ezekiel 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

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  45. Ezekiel 23:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,

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  46. Ezekiel 44:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,

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  47. Hosea 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

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    Source alternate reference: 2.4

  48. Hosea 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

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    Source alternate reference: 2.7

  49. Hosea 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

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  50. Hosea 10:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

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