H517Noun, feminine220 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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- Genesis 2:24אִמּוֹ
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Leviticus 18:7אִמְּךָ
You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
- Judges 5:7אֵם
Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.
- 1 Kings 1:11אֵם
Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?
- 2 Kings 3:2וּכְאִמּוֹ
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.
- Proverbs 1:8אִמֶּךָ
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.