אֵםʼêm

mother

Pronunciation: ame · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H517

Meanings

1. literal (human) mother (Genesis 20:12; Genesis 32:12; Genesis 44:20)

2. figurative (Judges 5:7; Isaiah 22:21; Job 29:16)

3. dam, of animals (Exodus 22:29; Leviticus 22:27; Exodus 23:19)

4. = point of departure or division (Ezekiel 21:26)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 220 times in the Bible.

Genesis 2:24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
Genesis 3:20 Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.
Genesis 20:12 And she really is my sister, for we both have the same father, but different mothers. And I married her.
Genesis 21:21 and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 24:28 The young woman ran home to tell her family everything that had happened.
Genesis 24:53 Then he brought out silver and gold jewelry and clothing and presented them to Rebekah. He also gave expensive presents to her brother and mother.

See every passage

Genesis 2:24, 3:20, 20:12, 21:21, 24:28, 24:53, 24:55, 24:67, 27:11, 27:13, 27:14, 27:29, 28:2, 28:5, 28:7, 29:10, 30:14, 32:11, 37:10, 43:29, 44:20
Exodus 2:8, 20:12, 21:15, 21:17, 22:30, 23:19, 34:26
Leviticus 18:7, 18:9, 18:13, 19:3, 20:9, 20:14, 20:17, 20:19, 21:2, 21:11, 22:27, 24:11
Numbers 6:7, 12:12
Deuteronomy 5:16, 13:6, 14:21, 21:13, 21:18, 21:19, 22:6, 22:7, 22:15, 27:16, 27:22, 33:9
Joshua 2:13, 2:18, 6:23
Judges 5:7, 5:28, 8:19, 9:1, 9:3, 14:2, 14:3, 14:4, 14:5, 14:6, 14:9, 14:16, 16:17, 17:2, 17:3, 17:4
Ruth 1:8, 2:11
1 Samuel 2:19, 15:33, 20:30, 22:3
2 Samuel 17:25, 19:37, 20:19
1 Kings 1:11, 2:13, 2:19, 2:20, 2:22, 3:27, 11:26, 14:21, 14:31, 15:2, 15:10, 15:13, 17:23, 19:20, 22:42, 22:52
2 Kings 3:2, 3:13, 4:19, 4:20, 4:30, 8:26, 9:22, 11:1, 12:1, 14:2, 15:2, 15:33, 18:2, 21:1, 21:19, 22:1, 23:31, 23:36, 24:8, 24:12, 24:15, 24:18
1 Chronicles 2:26, 4:9
2 Chronicles 12:13, 13:2, 15:16, 20:31, 22:2, 22:3, 22:10, 24:1, 25:1, 26:3, 27:1, 29:1
Esther 2:7
Job 1:21, 17:14, 31:18
Psalms 22:9, 22:10, 27:10, 35:14, 50:20, 51:5, 69:8, 71:6, 109:14, 113:9, 131:2, 139:13
Proverbs 1:8, 4:3, 6:20, 10:1, 15:20, 19:26, 20:20, 23:22, 23:25, 28:24, 29:15, 30:11, 30:17, 31:1
Ecclesiastes 5:15
Song of Solomon 1:6, 3:4, 3:11, 6:9, 8:1, 8:2, 8:5
Isaiah 8:4, 49:1, 50:1, 66:13
Jeremiah 15:8, 15:10, 16:3, 16:7, 20:14, 20:17, 22:26, 50:12, 52:1
Lamentations 2:12, 5:3
Ezekiel 16:3, 16:44, 16:45, 19:2, 19:10, 21:21, 22:7, 23:2, 44:25
Hosea 2:2, 2:5, 4:5, 10:14
Micah 7:6
Zechariah 13:3

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).