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H0517אֵםem

motherPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 26
  2. 7
  3. 15
  4. 2
  5. 13
  6. 3
  7. 20
  8. 2
  9. 4
  10. 3
  11. 16
  12. 22
  13. 2
  14. 12
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. 2
  18. 3
  19. 12
  20. 14
  21. 1
  22. 7
  23. 5
  24. 9
  25. 3
  26. 10
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 4
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 1
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 2
  39. Malachi: 0

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220 occurrences in 202 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Isaiah 66:13

    As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

    אִמּ֖וֹ (אִמּ֖) 'i.M “mother”

  2. Jeremiah 15:8

    Their widows are increased to Me above the sand of the seas; I bring upon them, against the mother, a chosen one, even a spoiler at noonday; I cause anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

    אֵ֛ם 'em “a mother of”

  3. Jeremiah 15:10

    Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast 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 every one of them doth curse me.

    אִמִּ֔י (אִמִּ֔) 'i.M “O mother”

  4. 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 that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begot them in this land:

    אִמֹּתָ֞ם (אִמֹּתָ֞) 'i.mo.Ta “mothers”

  5. Jeremiah 16:7

    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.

    אִמּֽוֹ׃ (אִמּֽ) 'i.M “mother”

  6. Jeremiah 20:14

    Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.

    אִמִּ֖י (אִמִּ֖) 'i.M “mother”

  7. Jeremiah 20:17

    Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

    אִמִּי֙ (אִמִּ) 'i.M “mother”

  8. Jeremiah 22:26

    And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bore thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

    אִמְּךָ֙ (אִמְּ) 'i.me. “mother”

  9. Jeremiah 50:12

    Your mother shall be sore ashamed, she that bore you shall be confounded; behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

    אִמְּכֶם֙ (אִמְּ) 'i.me. “mother”

  10. 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 name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

    אִמּ֔וֹ (אִמּ֔) 'i.M “mother”

  11. Lamentations 2:12

    They say to their mothers: 'Where is corn and wine?' when they swoon as the wounded in the broad places of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

    לְאִמֹּתָם֙ (אִמֹּתָ) 'i.mo.Ta “mothers”אִמֹּתָֽם׃ (אִמֹּתָֽ) 'i.mo.Ta “mothers”

  12. Lamentations 5:3

    We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

    אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ (אִמֹּתֵ֖י) 'i.mo.Tei. “mothers”

  13. Ezekiel 16:3

    and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem: Thine origin and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.

    וְאִמֵּ֥ךְ (אִמֵּ֥) 'i.Me “mother”

  14. Ezekiel 16:44

    Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying: As the mother, so her daughter.

    כְּאִמָּ֖ה (אִמָּ֖) 'i.Ma “mother”

  15. Ezekiel 16:45

    Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

    אִמֵּ֣ךְ (אִמֵּ֣) 'i.Me “mother”אִמְּכֶ֣ן (אִמְּ) 'i.me. “mother”

  16. Ezekiel 19:2

    and say: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared her whelps!

    אִמְּךָ֙ (אִמְּ) 'i.me. “[was] mother”

  17. Ezekiel 19:10

    Thy mother was like a vine, in thy likeness, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

    אִמְּךָ֥ (אִמְּ) 'i.me. “mother”

  18. Ezekiel 21:26

    For the king of Babylon standeth at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shaketh the arrows to and fro, he inquireth of the teraphim, he looketh in the liver.

    אֵ֣ם 'em “[the] mother of”

  19. Ezekiel 22:7

    In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

    וָאֵם֙ (אֵם֙) 'Em “mother”

  20. Ezekiel 23:2

    'Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;

    אֵם־ 'em- “a mother”

  21. Ezekiel 44:25

    And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

    וּ֠לְאֵם (אֵם) 'em “a mother”

  22. Hosea 2:4

    Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

    בְאִמְּכֶם֙ (אִמְּ) 'i.me. “mother”

  23. Hosea 2:7

    For their mother 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.'

    אִמָּ֔ם (אִמָּ֔) 'i.Ma “mother”

  24. Hosea 4:5

    Therefore shalt thou stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.

    אִמֶּֽךָ׃ (אִמֶּֽ) 'i.Me. “mother”

  25. Hosea 10:14

    Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy hosts, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle; the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

    אֵ֥ם 'em “mother”