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:
Job 17:14: "Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister."
Job 31:18: "from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)"
Psalms 22:9: "me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope my mother's breasts."
Psalms 22:10: "thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly."
Psalms 27:10: "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD"
Psalms 35:14: "I bowed down heavily, for his mother."
Psalms 50:20: "and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's"
Psalms 51:5: "I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother"
Psalms 69:8: "a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's"
Psalms 71:6: "from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise"
Psalms 109:14: "the LORD; the sin of his mother be blotted out."
Psalms 113:9: "woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother Praise ye the LORD."
Psalms 131:2: "and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child."
Psalms 139:13: "hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb."
Proverbs 1:8: "and forsake the law of thy mother:"
Proverbs 4:3: "tender beloved in the sight of my mother."
Proverbs 6:20: "and forsake the law of thy mother:"
Proverbs 10:1: "but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother."
Proverbs 15:20: "but a foolish despiseth his mother."
Proverbs 19:26: "He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son and bringeth reproach."
Proverbs 20:20: "Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out darkness."
Proverbs 23:22: "begot thee, and despise thy mother when she is old."
Proverbs 23:25: "Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice."
Proverbs 28:24: "Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no the same is the companion"
Proverbs 29:15: "wisdom: but a child to himself bringeth his mother to shame."
Proverbs 30:11: "their father, and doth not bless their mother."
Proverbs 30:17: "at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young"
Proverbs 31:1: "Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught"
Ecclesiastes 5:15: "As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked to go"
Song of Solomon 1:6: "upon me, because I am black, because the sun upon me: my mother's children were angry"
Song of Solomon 3:4: "I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's"
Song of Solomon 3:11: "king with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals,"
Song of Solomon 6:9: "is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters"
Song of Solomon 8:1: "O that thou wast as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! thee without, I would kiss"
Song of Solomon 8:2: "I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced"
Song of Solomon 8:5: "under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bore"
Isaiah 8:4: "shall have knowledge to cry, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil"
Isaiah 49:1: "The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention"
Isaiah 50:1: "the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or"
Isaiah 50:1: "you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away."
Isaiah 66:13: "As one whom his mother comforteth, so comfort you; and ye shall be comforted"
Jeremiah 15:8: "to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday:"
Jeremiah 15:10: "Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man and a man of contention"
Jeremiah 16:3: "in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begot"
Jeremiah 16:7: "for their father or for their mother."
Jeremiah 20:14: "let not wherein my mother bore me be blessed."
Jeremiah 20:17: "he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother my grave, and her womb"
Jeremiah 22:26: "And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bore thee, into country,"
Jeremiah 50:12: " Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bore you shall be ashamed: the hindmost of the nations"
Jeremiah 52:1: "eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter"
