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

Proverbs 6:20 - My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: H517

Proverbs 10:1 - The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. H517

Proverbs 15:20 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother. H517

Proverbs 19:26 - He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, H517 is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Proverbs 20:20 - Whoso curseth his father or his mother, H517 his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Proverbs 23:22 - Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother H517 when she is old.

Proverbs 23:25 - Thy father and thy mother H517 shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

Proverbs 28:24 - Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, H517 and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Proverbs 29:15 - The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother H517 to shame.

Proverbs 30:11 - There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. H517

Proverbs 30:17 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, H517 the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Proverbs 31:1 - The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother H517 taught him.

Ecclesiastes 5:15 - As he came forth of his mother's H517 womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

Song of Solomon 1:6 - Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's H517 children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Song of Solomon 3:4 - It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's H517 house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Song of Solomon 3:11 - Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother H517 crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Song of Solomon 6:9 - My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, H517 she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

Song of Solomon 8:1 - O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! H517 when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

Song of Solomon 8:2 - I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's H517 house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

Song of Solomon 8:5 - Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother H517 brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

Isaiah 8:4 - For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, H517 the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 49:1 - Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother H517 hath he made mention of my name.

Isaiah 50:1 - Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's H517 divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother H517 put away.

Isaiah 66:13 - As one whom his mother H517 comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 15:8 - Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother H517 of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

Jeremiah 15:10 - Woe is me, my mother, H517 that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Jeremiah 16:3 - For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers H517 that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

Jeremiah 16:7 - Neither shall men tear themselves 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. H517

Jeremiah 20:14 - Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother H517 bare me be blessed.

Jeremiah 20:17 - Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother H517 might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Jeremiah 22:26 - And I will cast thee out, and thy mother H517 that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

Jeremiah 50:12 - Your mother H517 shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jeremiah 52:1 - Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's H517 name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Lamentations 2:12 - They say to their mothers, H517 Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' H517 bosom.

Lamentations 5:3 - We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers H517 are as widows.

Ezekiel 16:3 - And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother H517 an Hittite.

Ezekiel 16:44 - Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, H517 so is her daughter.

Ezekiel 16:45 - Thou art thy mother's H517 daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother H517 was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 19:2 - And say, What is thy mother? H517 A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

Ezekiel 19:10 - Thy mother H517 is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Ezekiel 21:21 - For the king of Babylon stood at the parting H517 of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

Ezekiel 22:7 - In thee have they set light by father and mother: H517 in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 23:2 - Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: H517

Ezekiel 44:25 - And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, H517 or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

Hosea 2:2 - Plead with your mother, H517 plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Hosea 2:5 - For their mother H517 hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

Hosea 4:5 - Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. H517

Hosea 10:14 - Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother H517 was dashed in pieces upon her children.

Micah 7:6 - For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, H517 the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

Zechariah 13:3 - And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother H517 that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother H517 that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.