אֵם
em
1. mother
a. of humans
b. of Deborah's relationship to the people (fig.)
c. of animals
2. point of departure or division
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 202 verses
- Proverbs 1:8 אִמֶּֽךָ׃
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
- Proverbs 4:3 אִמִּֽי׃
When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,
- Proverbs 6:20 אִמֶּֽךָ׃
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
- Proverbs 10:1 אִמּֽוֹ׃
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
- Proverbs 15:20 אִמּֽוֹ׃
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
- Proverbs 19:26 אֵ֑ם
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
- Proverbs 20:20 וְאִמּ֑וֹ
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
- Proverbs 23:22 אִמֶּֽךָ׃
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
- Proverbs 23:25 וְאִמֶּ֑ךָ
May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
- Proverbs 28:24 וְאִמּ֗וֹ
He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
- Proverbs 29:15 אִמּֽוֹ׃
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
- Proverbs 30:11 אִ֝מּ֗וֹ
There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
- Proverbs 30:17 אֵ֥ם
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
- Proverbs 31:1 אִמּֽוֹ׃
These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:
- Ecclesiastes 5:15 אִמּ֔וֹ
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
- Song of Solomon 1:6 אִמִּ֣י
Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.
- Song of Solomon 3:4 אִמִּ֔י
I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
- Song of Solomon 3:11 אִמּוֹ֙
Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother bestowed on the day of his wedding— the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
- Song of Solomon 6:9 לְאִמָּ֔הּ
but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.
- Song of Solomon 8:1 אִמִּ֑י
O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
- Song of Solomon 8:2 אִמִּ֖י
I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
- Song of Solomon 8:5 אִמֶּ֔ךָ
Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
- Isaiah 8:4 וְאִמִּ֑י
For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
- Isaiah 49:1 אִמִּ֖י
Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- Isaiah 50:1 אִמְּכֶם֙אִמְּכֶֽם׃
This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
- Isaiah 66:13 אִמּ֖וֹ
As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
- Jeremiah 15:8 אֵ֛ם
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
- Jeremiah 15:10 אִמִּ֔י
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
- Jeremiah 16:3 אִמֹּתָ֞ם
For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:
- Jeremiah 16:7 אִמּֽוֹ׃
No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.
- Jeremiah 20:14 אִמִּ֖י
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
- Jeremiah 20:17 אִמִּי֙
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
- Jeremiah 22:26 אִמְּךָ֙
I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
- Jeremiah 50:12 אִמְּכֶם֙
your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- Jeremiah 52:1 אִמּ֔וֹ
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
- Lamentations 2:12 לְאִמֹּתָם֙אִמֹּתָֽם׃ס
They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
- Lamentations 5:3 אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
- Ezekiel 16:3 וְאִמֵּ֥ךְ
and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
- Ezekiel 16:44 כְּאִמָּ֖ה
Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- Ezekiel 16:45 אִמֵּ֣ךְאִמְּכֶ֣ן
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 19:2 אִמְּךָ֙
and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
- Ezekiel 19:10 אִמְּךָ֥
Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
- Ezekiel 21:21 אֵ֣ם
For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.
- Ezekiel 22:7 וָאֵם֙
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Ezekiel 23:2 אֵם־
“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,
- Ezekiel 44:25 וּ֠לְאֵם
A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,
- Hosea 2:2 בְאִמְּכֶם֙
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
- Hosea 2:5 אִמָּ֔ם
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
- Hosea 4:5 אִמֶּֽךָ׃
You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
- Hosea 10:14 אֵ֥ם
the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
