μήτηρ mḗtēr
Meaning
a "mother" (literally or figuratively, immediate or remote)
In the King James Version: mother
Derivation: apparently a primary word;
Where it is used
- John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
- John 2:12 After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
- John 3:4 “How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”
- John 6:42 They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
- John 19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.
- John 19:26 When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”
- John 19:27 Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.
- Acts 1:14 With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
- Acts 3:2 And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
- Acts 12:12 And when he had realized this, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered together and were praying.
- Acts 14:8 In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
- Romans 16:13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.
- Galatians 1:15 But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
- Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
- Ephesians 5:31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
- Ephesians 6:2 “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
- 1 Timothy 5:2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
- 2 Timothy 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.
- Revelation 17:5 And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.