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:
Lamentations 2:12: "They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? as the wounded in the streets"
Lamentations 2:12: "when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom."
Lamentations 5:3: "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Ezekiel 16:3: "is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite."
Ezekiel 16:44: "shall use this proverb against As is the mother, so is her daughter."
Ezekiel 16:45: "Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and thou art the sister"
Ezekiel 16:45: "loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite."
Ezekiel 19:2: "And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down lions, she nourished"
Ezekiel 19:10: " Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by she was fruitful"
Ezekiel 21:21: "of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways,"
Ezekiel 22:7: "In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt with the stranger: in thee have they vexed"
Ezekiel 23:2: "women, of one mother:"
Ezekiel 44:25: "themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother,"
Hosea 2:2: "Plead with your mother, plead: for she my wife, neither"
Hosea 2:5: "For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: she said, I will go"
Hosea 4:5: "thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother."
Hosea 10:14: "Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children."
Micah 7:6: "the father, the daughter against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies"
Zechariah 13:3: "shall yet prophesy, and his mother that begot him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not"
Zechariah 13:3: "in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth."
