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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 Box Gen 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:20 - Now the man called his wife’s name [fn]Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - “Besides, she actually is 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 [fn]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 girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But her brother and her mother said, “Let the girl stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:67

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Jacob [fn]answered his mother Rebekah, “Behold, Esau my brother 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 - But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:14 - So he went and got them, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made 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 Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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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 had gone to Paddan-aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - 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 mouth of the well 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 - Now 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, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and [fn]attack me and the mothers with the children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - He related it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have [fn]had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - “We said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, [fn]to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, 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
Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors
Up to the [fn]utmost bound of the everlasting hills;
May they be on the head of Joseph,
And on the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - But when she could hide him no longer, she got him a [fn]wicker [fn]basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.” 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 prolonged 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 - “He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:17 - “He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:30 - “You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; 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 - “You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. “You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - “You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:7 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - ‘The nakedness of your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s blood relative.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:3

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:9 - ‘If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his bloodguiltiness is upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:14 - ‘If there is a man who [fn]marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in your midst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - ‘If there is a man who takes his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he bears his guilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - ‘You shall also not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for such a one has made naked his [fn]blood relative; they will bear their guilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:2 - except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:27 - “When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall [fn]remain seven days [fn]with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a sacrifice of an offering by fire to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - ‘He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - “Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from 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 has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - “If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife [fn]you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - “You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your [fn]town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall 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 - “She shall also [fn]remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and mother a full month; and 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 any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city [fn]at the gateway of his hometown.

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