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Lexicon :: Strong's G3994 - penthera

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πενθερά
Transliteration
penthera (Key)
Pronunciation
pen-ther-ah'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

πενθερά pentherá, pen-ther-ah'; feminine of G3995; a wife's mother:—mother in law, wife's mother.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G3994 in the following manner: mother in law (3x), wife's mother (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G3994 in the following manner: mother in law (3x), wife's mother (3x).

  1. mother-in-law, a wife's mother

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πενθερά pentherá, pen-ther-ah'; feminine of G3995; a wife's mother:—mother in law, wife's mother.
STRONGS G3994:
πενθερά, πενθερᾶς, ἡ (feminine of πενθερός, which see), a mother-in-law, a wife's mother: Matthew 8:14; Matthew 10:35; Mark 1:30; Luke 4:38; Luke 12:53. (Demosthenes, Plutarch, Lucian, others; the Sept. for חָמות.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
8:14; 10:35
Mark
1:30
Luke
4:38; 12:53

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3994 matches the Greek πενθερά (penthera),
which occurs 13 times in 12 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:23 - 'Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:14 - Again they wept loudly. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung tightly to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - Boaz replied to her, "I have been given a full report of all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband - how you left your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:18 - She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much grain she had gathered. Then Ruth gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you gather grain today? Where did you work? May the one who took notice of you be rewarded!" So Ruth told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked. She said, "The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz."

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:21 - Ruth the Moabite replied, "He even told me, 'You may go along beside my servants until they have finished gathering all my harvest!'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So Ruth worked beside Boaz's female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, "My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:6 - So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:16 - and she returned to her mother-in-law. When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, "How did things turn out for you, my daughter?" Ruth told her about all the man had done for her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:17 - She said, "He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me, 'Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:6 - For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are his own servants.
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