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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)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 - Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and 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; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28 - Then the maiden ran and told her mother's household about these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - And the servant brought forth jewelry of silver and of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - Her brother and her mother said, "Let the maiden remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:67

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:67 - Then Isaac brought her into the tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - His mother said to him, "Upon me be your curse, my son; only obey my word, and go, fetch them to me."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:14 - So he went and took them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethu'el your mother's father; and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Thus Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, the son of Bethu'el the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Now when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Give me, I pray, some of your son's mandrakes."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and slay us all, the mothers with the children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children; and his father loves him.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - For when I came from Paddan, Rachel to my sorrow died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and 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 mighty beyond the blessings of the eternal mountains, the bounties of the everlasting hills; may they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was separate from his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called 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 your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:15

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:17 - "Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:30 - You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - "The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk."

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:7 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near kinswoman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:3 - Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:9 - For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:14 - If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - "If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's near kin; they shall bear their iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:2 - except for his nearest of kin, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - he shall not go in to any dead body, nor defile himself, even for his father or for his mother;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:27 - "When a bull or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:11 - and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelo'mith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - Neither for his father nor for his mother, nor for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean; because his separation to God is upon his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:16 - "'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - "If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - "You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13 - And she shall put off her captive's garb, and shall remain in your house and bewail her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 - "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they chastise him, will not give heed to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,

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