Strong's Concordance H517

Original Word: אֵם
Transliteration: ʼêm
Phonetic Spelling: ame
a primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father]); dam, mother, × parting.

Usages throughout the bible

Deuteronomy 22:15 - Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, H517 take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

Deuteronomy 27:16 - Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. H517 And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:22 - Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. H517 And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 33:9 - Who said unto his father and to his mother, H517 I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

Joshua 2:13 - And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, H517 and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

Joshua 2:18 - Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, H517 and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.

Joshua 6:23 - And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, H517 and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.

Judges 5:7 - The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother H517 in Israel.

Judges 5:28 - The mother H517 of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

Judges 8:19 - And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: H517 as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

Judges 9:1 - And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's H517 brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's H517 father, saying,

Judges 9:3 - And his mother's H517 brethren spake 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 - And he came up, and told his father and his mother, H517 and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

Judges 14:3 - Then his father and his mother H517 said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

Judges 14:4 - But his father and his mother H517 knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

Judges 14:5 - Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, H517 to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

Judges 14:6 - And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother H517 what he had done.

Judges 14:9 - And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, H517 and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.

Judges 14:16 - And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, H517 and shall I tell it thee?

Judges 16:17 - That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's H517 womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.

Judges 17:2 - And he said unto his mother, H517 The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother H517 said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.

Judges 17:3 - And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, H517 his mother H517 said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

Judges 17:4 - Yet he restored the money unto his mother; H517 and his mother H517 took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

Ruth 1:8 - And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's H517 house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

Ruth 2:11 - And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, H517 and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.

1 Samuel 2:19 - Moreover his mother H517 made him a little coat, 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 - And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother H517 be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

1 Samuel 20:30 - Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's H517 nakedness?

1 Samuel 22:3 - And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, H517 I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.

2 Samuel 17:25 - And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother. H517

2 Samuel 19:37 - Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. H517 But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

2 Samuel 20:19 - I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother H517 in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

1 Kings 1:11 - Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother H517 of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?

1 Kings 2:13 - And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother H517 of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.

1 Kings 2:19 - Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; H517 and she sat on his right hand.

1 Kings 2:20 - Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: H517 for I will not say thee nay.

1 Kings 2:22 - And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, H517 And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

1 Kings 3:27 - Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother H517 thereof.

1 Kings 11:26 - And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's H517 name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.

1 Kings 14:21 - And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's H517 name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

1 Kings 14:31 - And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's H517 name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 15:2 - Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's H517 name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15:10 - And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's H517 name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15:13 - And also Maachah his mother, H517 even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

1 Kings 17:23 - And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: H517 and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

1 Kings 19:20 - And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, H517 and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

2 Kings 3:2 - And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: H517 for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.

2 Kings 3:13 - And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. H517 And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

2 Kings 4:19 - And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. H517

2 Kings 4:20 - And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, H517 he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.