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Lexicon :: Strong's H517 - 'ēm

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אֵם
Transliteration
'ēm
Pronunciation
ame
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive word
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TWOT Reference: 115a

Strong’s Definitions

אֵם ʼêm, ame; a primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father]):—dam, mother, × parting.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 220x

The KJV translates Strong's H517 in the following manner: mother (214x), dam (5x), parting (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 220x
The KJV translates Strong's H517 in the following manner: mother (214x), dam (5x), parting (1x).

  1. mother

    1. of humans

    2. of Deborah's relationship to the people (fig.)

    3. of animals

  2. point of departure or division

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵם ʼêm, ame; a primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father]):—dam, mother, × parting.
STRONGS H517: Abbreviations
אֵם 221 noun feminine mother (Phoenician אם, Arabic أُمًّ, إِمًّ Ethiopic እዎ, Sabean אם (only in proper names compare e. g. BaeRel 118) Assyrian ummu COTGloss; Aramaic אֵם, אִימָּא, axmAe  ) — א׳ absolute Genesis 32:12 +; construct Genesis 3:20 +; suffix אִמִּי Genesis 20:12 + etc.; plural only suffix אִמֹּתֵנוּ Lamentations 5:3; אִמֹּתָם Jeremiah 16:3; Lamentations 2:12 (twice in verse); —
1. literal (human) mother, as parent Genesis 20:12; Genesis 32:12; Genesis 44:20; Exodus 2:8; Psalm 51:7; Psalm 113:9 (opposed to עֲקֶרֶת) Jeremiah 15:8 10; Jeremiah 20:14; Jeremiah 22:26; Jeremiah 50:12; 1 Chronicles 4:9; Songs 6:9; Songs 8:5 +; hence of Eve אֵם כָּל־חָ֑י Genesis 3:20; in poetry of birth, יָצָא מִבֶּטֶן אֵם Job 1:21; Ecclesiastes 5:14; יָצָא מֵרֶחֶם אֵם Numbers 12:12 compare Psalm 139:13 (Jeremiah 20:18 &) מִמְּעֵי אִמִּי גּוֺזִי Psalm 71:6 (subject י׳, compare גחה Psalm 22:10; > גּוֺזִי = my benefactor from birth Thes Ew Hup Pe); also וַתְּהִי אִמִּי קִבְרִי Jeremiah 20:17; מִבֶּטֶן אֵם = from earliest existence Judges 16:17; Job 31:18; Psalm 22:11; so מִמְּעֵי אֵם Isaiah 49:1; as giving suck Songs 8:1 (שְׁדֵי אֵם) Psalm 22:10; compare Psalm 131:2 (see Exodus 2:9 compare Exodus 2:8); as exercising authority Genesis 21:21; Genesis 24:28; Genesis 27:11), 13) 14; Judges 17:2f; Ruth 1:8; Songs 3:4; Songs 8:2 etc.; especially of queen-mother as possessing dignity & influence 1 Kings 1:11; 1 Kings 2:13) 19) 20; 2 Chronicles 22:2), 3; Songs 3:11; Proverbs 31:1; compare names of mothers of kings of Judah 1 Kings 14:21), 31; 1 Kings 15:2), 10), 13 +; as shewing love & care 1 Samuel 2:19; 1 Kings 3:27; 1 Kings 17:23; 2 Kings 4:30; Isaiah 66:13 (simile of י׳'s comforting his people; compare also Genesis 27:45); as beloved & lamented 1 Kings 19:20 (|| אָב) Genesis 24:67; Psalm 35:14; בֶּן־אִמּוֺ = own (uterine) brother Genesis 43:29; & || אָח Genesis 27:29; Deuteronomy 13:7; Judges 8:19; Psalm 50:20; Psalm 69:9; Songs 1:6; compare Songs 8:1; so בַּת־אִמּוֺ Leviticus 18:9; Leviticus 20:17; Deuteronomy 27:22 (|| בַּת־אָבִיו) Genesis 20:12; often with אָב, as parentes Jeremiah 16:3; Zechariah 13:3 (twice in verse); Isaiah 8:4; as rightfully claiming honour, authority, etc., compare above, Genesis 28:7 (P) compare Genesis 37:10 (E) Judges 14:2f, so in precept Proverbs 1:8; Proverbs 6:20; Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 15:20 etc. compare Ezekiel 22:7; laws enjoining these Exodus 20:12 = Deuteronomy 5:16; Leviticus 19:3 compare Deuteronomy 22:15; laws prohib. contrary Exodus 21:15), 17 (E) Leviticus 20:9 (twice in verse) (H) Deuteronomy 21:18), 19; Deuteronomy 27:16; laws as to mourning for Leviticus 21:2), 11 (H) Numbers 6:7 (P) compare Jeremiah 16:7; Ezekiel 44:25; left for wife Genesis 2:24; for mother-in-law Ruth 2:24; [Ruth 2:11] for husband Deuteronomy 21:13 (law for captive women); compare Deuteronomy 33:9 (of devoted service of Levites); loving, caring for children Proverbs 4:3 (on the opposite compare Psalm 27:10); loved, cared for Joshua 2:13 compare Joshua 2:18; Joshua 6:23. 1 Samuel 22:3; 1 Kings 19:20 compare 2 Samuel 19:38.
†2. figurative of Deborah as caring for her people אֵם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל Judges 5:7 (compare אָב Isaiah 22:21; Job 29:16); so of a city 2 Samuel 20:19 ('stock, race, community' RSK 28 compare Proph. iv. n 8); of Israel Hosea 2:4; Hosea 2:7; Hosea 4:5; compare Hosea 10:14; of Judah Isaiah 50:1 (twice in verse); of Hittite as mother of Jerusalem אָבִיךְ הָאֱמֹרִי וְאִמֵּךְ חִתִּית Ezekiel 16:3), 45 compare Ezekiel 16:44; Ezekiel 16:45; also Ezekiel 19:2), 10 & see Ezekiel 23:2.
† 3. of animals, dam Exodus 22:29 (of ox & sheep) Leviticus 22:27 (of bullock, sheep, or goat); Exodus 23:19 = Exodus 34:26 = Deuteronomy 14:21 (of kid); mother-bird Deuteronomy 22:6 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 22:7; figurative Job 17:14 לַשַּׁחַת קָרָאתִי אָבִי אָ֑תָּה אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָרִמָּֽה ׃.
†4. = point of departure or division אֵם הַדֶּרֶךְ Ezekiel 21:26. (|| ראֹשׁ שְׁנֵי הַדְּרָכִים).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:24; 3:20; 3:20; 20:12; 20:12; 20:12; 21:21; 24:28; 24:67; 27:11; 27:14; 27:29; 27:45; 28:7; 32:12; 32:12; 37:10; 43:29; 44:20

Exodus

2:8; 2:8; 2:9; 20:12; 21:15; 21:17; 22:29; 23:19; 34:26

Leviticus

18:9; 19:3; 20:9; 20:17; 21:2; 21:11; 22:27

Numbers

6:7; 12:12

Deuteronomy

5:16; 13:7; 14:21; 21:13; 21:18; 21:19; 22:6; 22:7; 22:15; 27:16; 27:22; 33:9

Joshua

2:13; 2:18; 6:23

Judges

5:7; 8:19; 14:2; 16:17; 17:2

Ruth

1:8

1 Samuel

2:19; 22:3

2 Samuel

19:38; 20:19

1 Kings

1:11; 2:13; 2:19; 2:20; 3:27; 14:21; 14:31; 15:2; 15:10; 15:13; 17:23; 19:20; 19:20

2 Kings

4:30

1 Chronicles

4:9

2 Chronicles

22:2; 22:3

Job

1:21; 17:14; 29:16; 31:18

Psalms

22:10; 22:10; 22:11; 27:10; 35:14; 50:20; 51:7; 69:9; 71:6; 113:9; 131:2; 139:13

Proverbs

1:8; 4:3; 6:20; 10:1; 15:20; 31:1

Ecclesiastes

5:14

Song of Songs

1:6; 3:4; 3:11; 6:9; 8:1; 8:1; 8:2; 8:5

Isaiah

8:4; 22:21; 49:1; 50:1; 66:13

Jeremiah

15:8; 15:10; 16:3; 16:3; 16:7; 20:14; 20:17; 20:18; 22:26; 50:12

Lamentations

2:12; 5:3

Ezekiel

16:3; 16:44; 16:45; 16:45; 19:2; 19:10; 21:26; 22:7; 23:2; 44:25

Hosea

2:4; 2:7; 4:5; 10:14

Zechariah

13:3

H517

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Strong's Number H517 matches the Hebrew אֵם ('ēm),
which occurs 220 times in 202 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 5 (Deu 22:15–2Ki 3:13)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the girl’s father and her mother H517 shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:16 - ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ H517 And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother.’ H517 And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:9 - Who said of his father and his mother, H517
‘I did not consider them’;
And he did not acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
For they observed Your word,
And kept Your covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:13 - and [fn]spare my father and my mother H517 and my brothers and my sisters, with all who belong to them, and deliver our [fn]lives from death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:18 - [fn]unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother H517 and your brothers and all your father’s household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother H517 and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - “The peasantry ceased, they ceased in Israel,
Until I, Deborah, arose,
Until I arose, a mother H517 in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - “Out of the window she looked and lamented,
The mother H517 of Sisera through the [fn]lattice,
‘Why does his chariot delay in coming?
Why do the [fn]hoofbeats of his chariots tarry?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19 - He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. H517 As the LORD lives, if only you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 - And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s H517 [fn]relatives, and spoke to them and to the whole clan of the household of his mother’s H517 father, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - And his mother’s H517 [fn]relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the hearing of all the leaders of Shechem; and [fn]they were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our [fn]relative.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:2 - So he came [fn]back and told his father and [fn]mother, H517 “I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - Then his father and his mother H517 said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your [fn]relatives, or among all [fn]our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she [fn]looks good to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:4 - However, his father and mother H517 did not know that it was of the LORD, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother, H517 and came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion came roaring toward him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - The Spirit of the LORD [fn]came upon him mightily, so that he tore him as one tears a young goat though he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father or mother H517 what he had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:9 - So he scraped [fn]the honey into his [fn]hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, H517 he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - Samson’s wife wept before him and said, “You only hate me, and you do not love me; you have propounded a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told it to me.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told it to my father or mother; H517 so should I tell you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - So he told her all that was in his heart and said to her, “A razor has never come on my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s H517 womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me and I will become weak and be like any other man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - He said to his mother, H517 “The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse [fn]in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother H517 said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - He then returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, H517 and his mother H517 said, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the LORD for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return [fn]them to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:4 - So when he returned the silver to his mother, H517 his mother H517 took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made [fn]them into a graven image and a molten image, and [fn]they were in the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:8 - And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s H517 house. May the LORD deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - Boaz replied to her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother H517 and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19 - And his mother H517 would make him a little robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother H517 be childless among women.” And Samuel hewed Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:30 - Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother’s H517 nakedness?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:3 - And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother H517 come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - Absalom set Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was [fn]Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother. H517

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:37 - “Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. H517 However, here is your servant Chimham, let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:19 - “I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city, even a mother H517 in Israel. Why would you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:11 - Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother H517 of Solomon, saying, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, and David our lord does not know it?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:13 - Now Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother H517 of Solomon. And she said, “Do you come peacefully?” And he said, “Peacefully.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:19 - So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king arose to meet her, bowed before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king’s mother, H517 and she sat on his right.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20 - Then she said, “I am making one small request of you; do not [fn]refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Ask, my mother, H517 for I will not [fn]refuse you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:22 - King Solomon answered and said to his mother, H517 “And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom—for he is my older brother—even for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:27 - Then the king said, “Give [fn]the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother.” H517

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26 - Then Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s H517 name was Zeruah, a widow, also [fn]rebelled against the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s H517 name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:31 - And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother’s H517 name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:2 - He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s H517 name was [fn]Maacah the daughter of [fn]Abishalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:10 - He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s H517 name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - [fn]He also removed Maacah his mother H517 from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image [fn]as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother; H517 and Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:20 - He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, H517 then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:42 - Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s H517 name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:52 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother H517 and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and his mother; H517 for he put away the sacred pillar of Baal which his father had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 - Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What do I have to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” H517 And the king of Israel said to him, “No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to give them into the hand of Moab.”

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