אֵם
mother
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
189 distinct verses where H517 appears in the Construct state, across 27 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 20 verses
- Genesis 2:24 אִמּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Genesis 3:20 אֵ֥ם n c fs cs The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
- Genesis 20:12 אִמִּ֑/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 21:21 אִמּ֛/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 24:28 אִמָּ֑/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.
- Genesis 24:53 וּ/לְ/אִמָּֽ/הּ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
- Genesis 24:55 וְ/אִמָּ֔/הּ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go."
- Genesis 24:67 אִמּ֔/וֹ אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
- Genesis 27:11 אִמּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
- Genesis 27:13 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
- Genesis 27:14 לְ/אִמּ֑/וֹ אִמּ/וֹ֙ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
- Genesis 27:29 אִמֶּ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Let peoples serve you, Nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
- Genesis 28:2 אִמֶּ֑/ךָ אִמֶּֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
- Genesis 28:5 אֵ֥ם n c fs cs Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
- Genesis 28:7 אִמּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
- Genesis 29:10 אִמּ֔/וֹ אִמּ֑/וֹ אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
- Genesis 30:14 אִמּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
- Genesis 37:10 וְ/אִמְּ/ךָ֣ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"
- Genesis 43:29 אִמּ/וֹ֒ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
- Genesis 44:20 לְ/אִמּ֖/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'
Exodus 7 verses
- Exodus 2:8 אֵ֥ם n c fs cs Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called the child's mother.
- Exodus 20:12 אִמֶּ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Exodus 21:15 וְ/אִמּ֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 21:17 וְ/אִמּ֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 22:30 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it me.
- Exodus 23:19 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
- Exodus 34:26 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
Leviticus 12 verses
- Leviticus 18:7 אִמְּ/ךָ֖ אִמְּ/ךָ֣ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:9 אִמֶּ֔/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.
- Leviticus 18:13 אִמְּ/ךָ֖ אִמְּ/ךָ֖ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
- Leviticus 19:3 אִמּ֤/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 20:9 אִמּ֖/וֹ וְ/אִמּ֛/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
- Leviticus 20:14 אִמָּ֖/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
- Leviticus 20:17 אִ֠מּ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
- Leviticus 20:19 אִמְּ/ךָ֛ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.
- Leviticus 21:2 לְ/אִמּ֣/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,
- Leviticus 21:11 וּ/לְ/אִמּ֖/וֹ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
- Leviticus 22:27 אִמּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms "When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 24:11 אִמּ֛/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 6:7 וּ/לְ/אִמּ֗/וֹ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God is on his head.
- Numbers 12:12 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
Deuteronomy 10 verses
- Deuteronomy 5:16 אִמֶּ֔/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 13:6 אִ֠מֶּ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 14:21 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
- Deuteronomy 21:13 אִמָּ֖/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
- Deuteronomy 21:18 אִמּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
- Deuteronomy 21:19 וְ/אִמּ֑/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
- Deuteronomy 22:15 וְ/אִמָּ֑/הּ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
- Deuteronomy 27:16 וְ/אִמּ֑/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 27:22 אִמּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 33:9 וּ/לְ/אִמּ/וֹ֙ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed your word, Keep your covenant.
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 2:13 אִמִּ֗/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
- Joshua 2:18 אִמֵּ֜/ךְ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by: and you shall gather to you into the house your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household.
- Joshua 6:23 אִמָּ֤/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs The young men the spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had; all her relatives also they brought out; and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
Judges 15 verses
- Judges 5:28 אֵ֥ם n c fs cs Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Sisera [cried] through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?
- Judges 8:19 אִמִּ֖/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs He said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother: as Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.
- Judges 9:1 אִמּ֑/וֹ אִמּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
- Judges 9:3 אִמּ֜/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
- Judges 14:2 וּ/לְ/אִמּ֔/וֹ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.
- Judges 14:3 וְ/אִמּ֗/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.
- Judges 14:4 וְ/אִמּ֜/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.
- Judges 14:5 וְ/אִמּ֖/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
- Judges 14:6 וּ/לְ/אִמּ֔/וֹ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.
- Judges 14:9 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.
- Judges 14:16 וּ/לְ/אִמִּ֛/י conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
- Judges 16:17 אִמִּ֑/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."
- Judges 17:2 לְ/אִמּ֡/וֹ אִמּ֔/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He said to his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from you, about which you did utter a curse, and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. His mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.
- Judges 17:3 לְ/אִמּ֑/וֹ אִמּ֡/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I most assuredly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you.
- Judges 17:4 לְ/אִמּ֑/וֹ אִמּ/וֹ֩ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.
Ruth 2 verses
- Ruth 1:8 אִמָּ֑/הּ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
- Ruth 2:11 וְ/אִמֵּ֗/ךְ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs Boaz answered her, It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.
1 Samuel 4 verses
- 1 Samuel 2:19 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
- 1 Samuel 15:33 אִמֶּ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.
- 1 Samuel 20:30 אִמֶּֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
- 1 Samuel 22:3 וְ/אִמִּ/י֙ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, [and be] with you, until I know what God will do for me.
2 Samuel 2 verses
- 2 Samuel 17:25 אֵ֥ם n c fs cs Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
- 2 Samuel 19:37 וְ/אִמִּ֑/י conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.
1 Kings 16 verses
- 1 Kings 1:11 אֵם n c fs cs Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it?
- 1 Kings 2:13 אֵם n c fs cs Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, Come you peaceably? He said, Peaceably.
- 1 Kings 2:19 לְ/אֵ֣ם prep + n c fs cs Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
- 1 Kings 2:20 אִמִּ֔/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Then she said, I ask one small petition of you; don't deny me. The king said to her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.
- 1 Kings 2:22 לְ/אִמּ֗/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms King Solomon answered his mother, Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
- 1 Kings 3:27 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is the mother of it.
- 1 Kings 11:26 אִמּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.
- 1 Kings 14:21 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 1 Kings 14:31 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:2 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
- 1 Kings 15:10 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Forty-one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
- 1 Kings 15:13 אִמּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- 1 Kings 17:23 לְ/אִמּ֑/וֹ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives.
- 1 Kings 19:20 וּ/לְ/אִמִּ֔/י conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. He said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
- 1 Kings 22:42 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
- 1 Kings 22:52 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, 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, in which he made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 22 verses
- 2 Kings 3:2 וּ/כְ/אִמּ֑/וֹ conj + prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
- 2 Kings 3:13 אִמֶּ֑/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
- 2 Kings 4:19 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.
- 2 Kings 4:20 אִמּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
- 2 Kings 4:30 אֵ֣ם n c fs cs The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and followed her.
- 2 Kings 8:26 אִמּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
- 2 Kings 9:22 אִמְּ/ךָ֛ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? He answered, What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?
- 2 Kings 11:1 אֵ֣ם n c fs cs Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
- 2 Kings 12:1 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
- 2 Kings 14:2 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 15:2 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 15:33 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
- 2 Kings 18:2 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
- 2 Kings 21:1 אִמּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hephzibah.
- 2 Kings 21:19 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
- 2 Kings 22:1 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
- 2 Kings 23:31 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
- 2 Kings 23:36 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
- 2 Kings 24:8 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 24:12 וְ/אִמּ֔/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
- 2 Kings 24:15 אֵ֣ם n c fs cs He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 24:18 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
2 Chronicles 12 verses
- 2 Chronicles 12:13 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 2 Chronicles 13:2 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 אֵ֣ם n c fs cs Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 20:31 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
- 2 Chronicles 22:2 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
- 2 Chronicles 22:3 אִמּ֛/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
- 2 Chronicles 22:10 אֵ֣ם n c fs cs Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 24:1 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
- 2 Chronicles 25:1 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 26:3 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 27:1 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
- 2 Chronicles 29:1 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
Esther 1 verse
Job 3 verses
- Job 1:21 אִמִּ֗/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
- Job 17:14 אִמִּ֥/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
- Job 31:18 אִמִּ֣/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb);
Psalms 11 verses
- Psalms 22:9 אִמִּֽ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
- Psalms 22:10 אִ֝מִּ֗/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.
- Psalms 27:10 וְ/אִמִּ֣/י conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Yahweh will take me up.
- Psalms 50:20 אִ֝מְּ/ךָ֗ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
- Psalms 51:5 אִמִּֽ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
- Psalms 69:8 אִמִּֽ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs I have become a stranger to my brothers, An alien to my mother's children.
- Psalms 71:6 אִ֭מִּ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
- Psalms 109:14 אִ֝מּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
- Psalms 113:9 אֵֽם n c fs cs He settles the barren woman in her home, As a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
- Psalms 131:2 אִמּ֑/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
- Psalms 139:13 אִמִּֽ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
Proverbs 12 verses
- Proverbs 1:8 אִמֶּֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:
- Proverbs 4:3 אִמִּֽ/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
- Proverbs 6:20 אִמֶּֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
- Proverbs 10:1 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
- Proverbs 15:20 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.
- Proverbs 20:20 וְ/אִמּ֑/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
- Proverbs 23:22 אִמֶּֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your mother when she is old.
- Proverbs 23:25 וְ/אִמֶּ֑/ךָ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
- Proverbs 28:24 וְ/אִמּ֗/וֹ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
- Proverbs 29:15 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The rod of correction gives wisdom, But a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
- Proverbs 30:11 אִ֝מּ֗/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.
- Proverbs 31:1 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him.
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Song of Solomon 7 verses
- Song of Solomon 1:6 אִמִּ֣/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Don't stare at me because I am dark, Because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.
- Song of Solomon 3:4 אִמִּ֔/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs I had scarcely passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, Into the chamber of her who conceived me.
- Song of Solomon 3:11 אִמּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, With the crown with which his mother has crowned him, In the day of his weddings, In the day of the gladness of his heart. Lover
- Song of Solomon 6:9 לְ/אִמָּ֔/הּ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
- Song of Solomon 8:1 אִמִּ֑/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Oh that you were like my brother, Who sucked the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; Yes, and no one would despise me.
- Song of Solomon 8:2 אִמִּ֖/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs I would lead you, bringing you into my mother's house, Who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.
- Song of Solomon 8:5 אִמֶּ֔/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, Leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
Isaiah 4 verses
- Isaiah 8:4 וְ/אִמִּ֑/י conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.
- Isaiah 49:1 אִמִּ֖/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Listen, isles, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:
- Isaiah 50:1 אִמְּ/כֶם֙ אִמְּ/כֶֽם n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
- Isaiah 66:13 אִמּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 8 verses
- Jeremiah 15:10 אִמִּ֔/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.
- Jeremiah 16:3 אִמֹּתָ֞/ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of them in this land:
- Jeremiah 16:7 אִמּֽ/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms neither shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
- Jeremiah 20:14 אִמִּ֖/י n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
- Jeremiah 20:17 אִמִּ/י֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 1cs because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
- Jeremiah 22:26 אִמְּ/ךָ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you die.
- Jeremiah 50:12 אִמְּ/כֶם֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- Jeremiah 52:1 אִמּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Lamentations 2 verses
- Lamentations 2:12 לְ/אִמֹּתָ/ם֙ אִמֹּתָֽ/ם prep + n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
- Lamentations 5:3 אִמֹּתֵ֖י/נוּ n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
Ezekiel 6 verses
- Ezekiel 16:3 וְ/אִמֵּ֥/ךְ conj + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
- Ezekiel 16:44 כְּ/אִמָּ֖/ה prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 3fs Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
- Ezekiel 16:45 אִמֵּ֣/ךְ אִמְּ/כֶ֣ן n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fp You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 19:2 אִמְּ/ךָ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
- Ezekiel 19:10 אִמְּ/ךָ֥ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- Ezekiel 21:21 אֵ֣ם n c fs cs For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
Hosea 3 verses
- Hosea 2:2 בְ/אִמְּ/כֶם֙ prep + n c fs cs + sfx pers 2mp Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, Neither am I her husband; And let her put away her prostitution from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts;
- Hosea 2:5 אִמָּ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, My oil and my drink.'
- Hosea 4:5 אִמֶּֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms You will stumble in the day, And the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother.
Micah 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
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At its core, אם (ʼêm) means “mother.” The King James Version also renders it “mother's,” a usage modern versions have dropped for “mother” — see the renderings breakdown. With 202 verses in 27 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 2:24. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. Dig into 202-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
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About this word
Strong's H517 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 202
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 202 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #215
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 215 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 202 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 202 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 92 verses · 46%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 56 verses · 28%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 54 verses · 27%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Mother 109×, Mother's 61×, Or his mother 8×
- American Standard Version: Mother 155×, Or his mother 8×, 's mother 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mother 118×, Mother’s 53×, Or mother 14×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mother 182×, Mother of 14×, Mothers 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H517 across 220 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 34 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H517 across 220 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 39 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H517 across 216 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
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Renders H517 across 221 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. lit. (human) mother, as parent Gn 20:12; 32:12; 44:20 Ex 2:8 ψ 51:7; 113:9 (opp. עֲקֶרֶת) Je 15:8, 10; 20:14; 22:26; 50:12 1 Ch 4:9 Ct 6:9; 8:5 +; hence of Eve אֵם כָּל־הָ֑י Gn 3:20; poet. of birth, יָצָא מִבֶּטֶן אֵם Jb 1:21 Ec 5:14; יָצָא מֵרֶחֶם אֵם Nu 12:12 cf. ψ 139:13 (Je 20:18 +) מִמְּעֵי אִמִּי גּוֹזִי ψ 71:6 (subj. י׳, cf. גחה 22:10; > גּוֹזִי = my benefactor from birth Thes Ew Hup Pe); also וַתְּהִי אִמִּי קִבְרִי Je 20:17; מִבֶּטֶן אֵם = from earliest existence Ju 16:17 Jb 31:18 ψ 22:11; so מִמְּעֵי אֵם Is 49:1; as giving suck Ct 8:1 (שְׁדֵי אֵם) ψ 22:10 cf. 131:2; (v. Ex 2:9 cf. v 8); as exercising authority Gn 21:21; 24:28; 27:11, 13, 14 Ju 17:2 f Ru 1:8 Ct 3:4; 8:2 etc.; especially of queen-mother as possessing dignity & influence 1 K 1:11; 2:13, 19, 20 2 Ch 22:2, 3 Ct 3:11 Pr 31:1; cf. names of mothers of kings of Judah 1 K 14:21, 31; 15:2, 10, 13 +; as shewing love & care 1 S 2:19 1 K 3:27; 17:23 2 K 4:30 Is 66:13 (sim. of י׳’s comforting his people; cf. also Gn 27:45); as beloved & lamented 1 K 19:20 (‖ אָב) Gn 24:67 ψ 35:14; בֶּן־אִמּוֹ = own (uterine) brother Gn 43:29; & ‖ אָח Gn 27:29 Dt 13:7 Ju 8:19 ψ 50:20; 69:9 Ct 1:6 cf. 8:1; so בַּת־אִמּוֹ Lv 18:9; 20:17 Dt 27:22 (‖ בַּת־אָבִיו) Gn 20:12; often with אָב, as parentes Je 16:3 Zc 13:3(×2) Is 8:4; as rightfully claiming honour, authority, etc., cf. supr., Gn 28:7 (P) cf. 37:10 (E) Ju 14:2f, so in precept Pr 1:8; 6:20; 10:1; 15:20 etc. cf. Ez 22:7; laws enjoining these Ex 20:12 = Dt 5:16 Lv 19:3 cf. Dt 22:15; laws prohib. contrary Ex 21:15, 17 (E) Lv 20:9(×2) (H) Dt 21:18, 19; 27:16; laws as to mourning for Lv 21:2, 11 (H) Nu 6:7 (P) cf. Je 16:7 Ez 44:25; left for wife Gn 2:24; for mother-in-law Ru 2:11; for husband Dt 21:13 (law for captive women); cf. Dt 33:9 (of devoted service of Levites); loving, caring for children Pr 4:3 (on the opposite cf. ψ 27:10); loved, cared for Jos 2:13 cf. v 18; 6:23 1 S 22:3 1 K 19:20 cf. 2 S 19:38. e.g. Genesis 20:12
- 2. fig. of Deborah as caring for her people אֵם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל Ju 5:7 (cf. אָב Is 22:21 Jb 29:16); so of a city 2 S 20:19 (‘stock, race, community’ RSK 28 cf. Proph. iv. n 8); of Israel Ho 2:4, 7; 4:5 cf. 10:14; of Judah Is 50:1(×2); of Hittite as mother of Jerusalem אָבִיךְ הָאֱמֹרִי וְאִמֵּךְ חִתִּיתֹ Ez 16:3, 45 cf. v 44, 45; also 19:2, 10 & vid. 23:2. e.g. Judges 5:7
- 3. of animals, dam Ex 22:29 (of ox & sheep) Lv 22:27 (of bullock, sheep, or goat); Ex 23:19 = 34:26 = Dt 14:21 (of kid); mother-bird Dt 22:6(×2), 7; fig. Jb 17:14 לַשַּׁחַת קָרָאתי אָבִי אָ֑תָּה אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָרִמָּֽה׃. e.g. Exodus 22:29
- 4. = point of departure or division אֵם הַדֶּרֶךְ Ez 21:26 (‖ רֹאשׁ שְׁנֵי הַדְּרָכִים). e.g. Ezekiel 21:26
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. mother (Ph. אם, Arabic أُمٌّ, إِمٌّ, Ethiopic እም, Sab. אם (only in n.pr. cf. e.g. BaeRel. 118) Assyrian ummu COTGloss; Aramaic אֵם, אִימָּא, ܐܶܡܳܐ )—א׳ abs. Gn 32:12 +; cstr. Gn 3:20 +; sf. אִמִּי Gn 20:12 + etc.; †pl. only sf. אִמֹּתֵנוּ La 5:3; אִמֹּתָם Je 16:3 La 2:12(×2)—
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Origin: a primitive word
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אִם
- 1. if, when. Mekh. Yithro, end כל א׳ שבתורה רשות every Im (If) in the Torah refers to voluntary actions (which you may or may not do) except three &c. Y. Gitt. VII, 48ᵈ בגין דאמר א׳ because he said, If (I die), i.e. conditional divorce. Succ. 53ᵃ א׳ אני כאן when I am here; a. fr.
- 2. whether. Yoma III, 1; a. fr.—א׳ … א׳ whether … or. Y. Pes. VI, beg. 33ᵃ א׳ פסח וכ׳ whether or not the Passover ceremonies supersede the Sabbath; a. fr. [Ib. אם יש תוחלת read יש וכ׳ אפשר, as before.]—אִם כֵּן (abbrev. א"כ) if this be so. Ber. I, 1; a. fr.—אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן (abbr. אא"כ) only when indeed, not until, unless. Keth. 76ᵃ; a. fr.
אֵם
- 1. mother, freq. = my mother. Sabb. 134ᵃ; a. fr.—Y. M. Kat. III, beg. 81ᶜ הניח חק אִמֹּו left his mother’s lap (Palestine).—Num. R. s. 10 (ref. to immo Prov. XXXI, 1) אמו זו … התורה וכ׳ ‘his mother’ that means the Law which trained Solomon and which is called a mother of those studying it, as you read (Prov. II, 3; text אִם is read אֵם ēm). e.g. Proverbs 31:1
- 2. womb, mouth of the womb. Ḥull. III, 2 (54ᵃ) ניטלה האם וכ׳ if the mouth of the womb is absent, cut out. Bekh. IV, 4 (28ᵇ).—Trnsf. legitimate existence, authority. Succ. 6ᵇ, a. fr. יש א׳ למסורת the traditional Scripture text (letters without vowels) is authoritative in Biblical interpretation, opp. יש א׳ למקרא the traditional reading (vowels) must guide us, e.g. בחלב (Ex. XXIII, 19) may be read בַּחֲלֵב as the traditional vocalization, or בְּחֵלֶב in the fat of.— Pl. אִמָּהוֹת, אִימָּהוֹת. Kidd. IV, 4 her genealogy must be traced back ארבע א׳ to the mothers of four generations (on each side) which is eight mothers. Y. Snh. II, 20ᵇ bot. they are not אֲמָהוֹת אלא אִימָּהוֹת maid-servants but mothers (of the nation).—Trnsf. א׳ של בצלים seed-onions. Peah III, 4. Erub. 29ᵃ; a. e.—Ch. אִימָּא. [Koh. R. to XII, 7 א׳ דבצלי׳, v. אַמָּה.] e.g. Exodus 23:19
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Forms in the corpus
The 96 distinct written forms H517 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 36 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 194 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 202 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:24
- Exodus 2:8
- Leviticus 18:7
- Numbers 6:7
- Deuteronomy 5:16
- Joshua 2:13
- Judges 5:7
- Ruth 1:8
- 1 Samuel 2:19
- 2 Samuel 17:25
- 1 Kings 1:11
- 2 Kings 3:2
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
