H517 אֵם
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 220 KJV occurrences
אֵם
ʼêm · ame
Definition
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
KJV Renderings
dam, mother, [idiom] parting.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive word;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 220)
- Genesis 2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- Exodus 20:12¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 21:19Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
- Judges 17:3And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
- 1 Kings 22:52And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
- 2 Chronicles 15:16¶ And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- Proverbs 4:3For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
- Jeremiah 15:10¶ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.