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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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 anyone who has sexual intercourse with his mother-in-law.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:14 - And again they wept together, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Ruth clung tightly to Naomi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - “Yes, I know,” Boaz replied. “But I also know about everything you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband. I have heard how you left your father and mother and your own land to live here among complete strangers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:18 - She carried it back into town and showed it to her mother-in-law. Ruth also gave her the roasted grain that was left over from her meal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - “Where did you gather all this grain today?” Naomi asked. “Where did you work? May the LORD bless the one who helped you!”
So Ruth told her mother-in-law about the man in whose field she had worked. She said, “The man I worked with today is named Boaz.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:21 - Then Ruth[fn] said, “What’s more, Boaz even told me to come back and stay with his harvesters until the entire harvest is completed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So Ruth worked alongside the women in Boaz’s fields and gathered grain with them until the end of the barley harvest. Then she continued working with them through the wheat harvest in early summer. And all the while she lived with her mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - One day Naomi said to Ruth, “My daughter, it’s time that I found a permanent home for you, so that you will be provided for.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:6 - So she went down to the threshing floor that night and followed the instructions of her mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:16 - When Ruth went back to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “What happened, my daughter?”
Ruth told Naomi everything Boaz had done for her,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:17 - and she added, “He gave me these six scoops of barley and said, ‘Don’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:6 - For the son despises his father.
The daughter defies her mother.
The daughter-in-law defies her mother-in-law.
Your enemies are right in your own household!
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