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Lexicon :: Strong's H2545 - ḥāmôṯ

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חָמוֹת
Transliteration
ḥāmôṯ
Pronunciation
kham-oth'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 674b

Strong’s Definitions

חֲמוֹת chămôwth, kham-oth'; or (shortened) חֲמֹת chămôth; feminine of H2524; a mother-in-law:—mother in law.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's H2545 in the following manner: mother in law (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's H2545 in the following manner: mother in law (11x).

  1. mother-in-law, husband's mother

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֲמוֹת chămôwth, kham-oth'; or (shortened) חֲמֹת chămôth; feminine of H2524; a mother-in-law:—mother in law.
STRONGS H2545: Abbreviations
† [חָמוֺת] noun feminine husband's mother (Late Hebrew חָמוֺת, Aramaic חֲמָתָא; Arabic bdb032706 husband's mother; Assyrian êmêtu, ZimBP 48; Ethiopic bdb032707) — only suffix חֲמוֺתֵךְ Ruth 2:11; Ruth 3:17; חֲמוֺתָהּ Ruth 1:14 + 7 times; חֲמֹתָהּ Micah 7:6; — of Naomi Ruth 1:14; Ruth 2:11, 18, 19 (twice in verse); Ruth 2:23; Ruth 3:1, 6, 16, 17; בַּת קָמָ֫ה בְאִמָּ֔הּ כַּלָּה בַּחֲמֹתָהּ Micah 7:6.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ruth

1:14; 1:14; 2:11; 2:11; 2:18; 2:19; 2:23; 3:1; 3:6; 3:16; 3:17; 3:17

Micah

7:6; 7:6

H2545

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2545 matches the Hebrew חָמוֹת (ḥāmôṯ),
which occurs 11 times in 10 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:14 - At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.

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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 she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!” Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home[fn] for you, where you will be well 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 and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:16 - When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:17 - and added, “He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, ‘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 a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
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