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Lexicon :: Strong's G3384 - mētēr

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μήτηρ
Transliteration
mētēr (Key)
Pronunciation
may'-tare
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:642,592

Strong’s Definitions

μήτηρ mḗtēr, may'-tare; apparently a primary word; a "mother" (literally or figuratively, immediate or remote):—mother.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 85x

The KJV translates Strong's G3384 in the following manner: mother (85x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 85x
The KJV translates Strong's G3384 in the following manner: mother (85x).

  1. a mother

  2. metaph. the source of something, the motherland

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μήτηρ mḗtēr, may'-tare; apparently a primary word; a "mother" (literally or figuratively, immediate or remote):—mother.
STRONGS G3384:
μήτηρ, genitive μητρός, dative μητρί, accusative μητέρα, ἡ (from Homer down; from Sanskritma, 'to measure'; but whether denoting the 'moulder,' or the 'manager' is debated; cf. Vanicek, p. 657; Curtius, § 472; (cf. μέτρον)), Hebrew אֵם, a mother; properly: Matthew 1:18; Matthew 2:11, and often; tropically, of that which is like a mother: Matthew 12:49; Mark 3:35; John 19:27; Romans 16:13, cf. 1 Timothy 5:2; a city is called ἡ μήτηρ τῶν πορνῶν, that produces and harbors the harlots, Revelation 17:5; of a city where races of men (i. e. Christians) originated, Galatians 4:26 (here G T Tr WH omit; L brackets παντον (on the origin of which cf. Lightfoot at the passage)).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
1:18; 2:11; 12:49
Mark
3:35
John
19:27
Romans
16:13
Galatians
4:26
1 Timothy
5:2
Revelation
17:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3384 matches the Greek μήτηρ (mētēr),
which occurs 227 times in 208 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 2:24–Deu 21:19)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:20 - The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - What's more, she is indeed my sister, my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter. She became my wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28 - The young woman ran and told her mother's household all about these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But Rebekah's brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:67 - Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - "But Esau my brother is a hairy man," Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, "and I have smooth skin!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - So his mother told him, "Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:14 - So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some of your son's mandrakes."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, "What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - We said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died - to my sorrow - in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath" (that is, Bethlehem).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:26 - The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes, do so." So the young girl went and got the child's mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:12 - "Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:15 - "Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:17 - "Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:30 - You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - "The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:7 - You must not expose your father's nakedness by having sexual intercourse with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have intercourse with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - You must not have sexual intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual intercourse with either of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13 - You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:3 - Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:9 - "'If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:14 - If a man has sexual intercourse with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - "'If a man has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister's nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - You must not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister and your father's sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:2 - except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:27 - "When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:11 - The Israelite woman's son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother's womb!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:16 - Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13 - discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 - If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

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