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:
Deuteronomy 5:16: "Honor thy father and thy mother, as thy God hath commanded"
Deuteronomy 13:6: "If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or or thy daughter,"
Deuteronomy 14:21: "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk."
Deuteronomy 21:13: "in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after"
Deuteronomy 21:18: "the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto"
Deuteronomy 21:19: "Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto of his city,"
Deuteronomy 22:6: "whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or"
Deuteronomy 22:6: "the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:"
Deuteronomy 22:7: "But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take to thee; that it may be well"
Deuteronomy 22:15: "Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity"
Deuteronomy 27:16: "Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all shall say, Amen."
Deuteronomy 27:22: "or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen."
Deuteronomy 33:9: "Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen did he acknowledge his brethren,"
Joshua 2:13: "And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and all that"
Joshua 2:18: "thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household,"
Joshua 6:23: "and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out"
Judges 5:7: "arose, that I arose a mother in Israel."
Judges 5:28: " The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, through the lattice,"
Judges 8:19: "They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: liveth, if ye had saved them alive,"
Judges 9:1: "went to Shechem his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with"
Judges 9:1: "all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,"
Judges 9:3: " And his mother's brethren spoke of him in the ears the men of Shechem"
Judges 14:2: "And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, a woman in Timnath"
Judges 14:3: "Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman of thy brethren, or among all"
Judges 14:4: "But his father and his mother knew not that was of the LORD,"
Judges 14:5: "Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came the vineyards"
Judges 14:6: "in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done."
Judges 14:9: "eating, to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told"
Judges 14:16: "I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell"
Judges 16:17: "I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven,"
Judges 17:2: "And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that from thee, about which thou"
Judges 17:2: "the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD,"
Judges 17:3: "the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, said, I had wholly dedicated"
Judges 17:3: "the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated"
Judges 17:4: "Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother two hundred shekels of silver,"
Judges 17:4: "the money unto his mother; and his mother two hundred shekels of silver, and gave"
Ruth 1:8: "Go, each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly"
Ruth 2:11: "of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto"
1 Samuel 2:19: " Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought"
1 Samuel 15:33: "hath made women so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel"
1 Samuel 20:30: "of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?"
1 Samuel 22:3: "unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with"
2 Samuel 17:25: "sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother."
2 Samuel 19:37: "the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over"
2 Samuel 20:19: "to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance"
1 Kings 1:11: "spoke unto Bath-sheba the mother saying, Hast thou not heard"
1 Kings 2:13: "came to the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably?"
1 Kings 2:19: "and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand."
1 Kings 2:20: "thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for"
1 Kings 2:22: "Solomon answered and said unto his mother, dost thou ask"
