Strong's #517: 'em (pronounced ame)
a primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1):--dam, mother, X parting.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'êm
1) mother
1a) of humans
1b) of Deborah' s relationship to the people (figuratively)
1c) of animals
2) point of departure or division
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: a primitive word
Usage:
This word is used 220 times:
Genesis 2:24: "shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be"
Genesis 3:20: "she was the mother of all living."
Genesis 20:12: "but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife."
Genesis 21:21: "And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took out of the land"
Genesis 24:28: "And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house things."
Genesis 24:53: "them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things."
Genesis 24:55: "And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide us a few days, at the least"
Genesis 24:67: "And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, Rebekah,"
Genesis 24:67: "her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's"
Genesis 27:11: "said to Rebekah his mother, Esau my brother is a hairy"
Genesis 27:13: " And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: obey my voice,"
Genesis 27:14: "And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother savory meat, such as"
Genesis 27:14: "and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother savory meat, such as his father"
Genesis 27:29: "to thee: be over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth"
Genesis 28:2: "to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence"
Genesis 28:2: "from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother."
Genesis 28:5: "of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother."
Genesis 28:7: "And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone"
Genesis 29:10: "the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's"
Genesis 29:10: "brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled"
Genesis 29:10: "and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother."
Genesis 30:14: "in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to"
Genesis 32:11: "I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children."
Genesis 37:10: "that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves"
Genesis 43:29: "his brother his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger"
Genesis 44:20: "and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth"
Exodus 2:8: "and called the child's mother."
Exodus 20:12: "Honor thy father and thy mother: that may be long upon"
Exodus 21:15: "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death."
Exodus 21:17: "And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death."
Exodus 22:30: "it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give"
Exodus 23:19: "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk."
Exodus 34:26: "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk."
Leviticus 18:7: "The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not she is thy mother;"
Leviticus 18:7: "shalt thou not she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness."
Leviticus 18:9: "of thy father, or of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born"
Leviticus 18:13: "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: she is thy mother's"
Leviticus 18:13: "sister: she is thy mother's near kinswoman."
Leviticus 19:3: "Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep I am the LORD"
Leviticus 20:9: "that curseth or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed"
Leviticus 20:9: "or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood"
Leviticus 20:14: "take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire,"
Leviticus 20:17: "daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness,"
Leviticus 20:19: "And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, sister: for"
Leviticus 21:2: "But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter,"
Leviticus 21:11: "nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;"
Leviticus 22:27: "seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth"
Leviticus 24:11: "And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri,"
Numbers 6:7: "He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, when they die: because"
Numbers 12:12: "is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb."
