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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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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 2:24–Deu 22:7)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:20 - The man named his wife 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 - What's more, she is indeed my sister, my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter. She became my wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28 - The young woman ran and told her mother's household all about these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But Rebekah's brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:67

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:67 - Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - "But Esau my brother is a hairy man," Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, "and I have smooth skin!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - So his mother told him, "Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:14 - So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 - May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some of your son's mandrakes."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, "What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29 - When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, he said, "Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?" Then he said, "May God be gracious to you, my son."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - We said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes, do so." So the young girl went and got the child's mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:12 - "Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:15 - "Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:17 - "Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:30 - You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God. "You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - "The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:7 - You must not expose your father's nakedness by having sexual intercourse with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have intercourse with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - You must not have sexual intercourse with your sister, whether she is your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she is born in the same household or born outside it; you must not have sexual intercourse with either of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13 - You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:3 - Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:9 - "'If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:14 - If a man has sexual intercourse with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - "'If a man has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has exposed his sister's nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - You must not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister and your father's sister, for such a person has laid bare his own close relative. They must bear their punishment for iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:2 - except for his close relative who is near to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:27 - "When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift to the LORD.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother's womb!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:16 - Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do 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 - discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 - If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 - If you happen to notice a bird's nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, you must not take the mother from the young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:7 - You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

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