אֵם ʼêm

Meaning

a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))

In the King James Version: dam, mother, [idiom] parting.

Derivation: a primitive word;

Where it is used

• 1 Chronicles 2:26 Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah, who was the mother of Onam.
• 1 Chronicles 4:9 Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
• 2 Chronicles 12:13 Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
• 2 Chronicles 13:2 and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
• 2 Chronicles 15:16 King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
• 2 Chronicles 20:31 So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
• 2 Chronicles 22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.
• 2 Chronicles 22:3 Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
• 2 Chronicles 22:10 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.
• 2 Chronicles 24:1 Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
• 2 Chronicles 25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.
• 2 Chronicles 26:3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
• 2 Chronicles 27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.
• 2 Chronicles 29:1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
• Esther 2:7 And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter.
• Job 1:21 saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
• Job 17:14 and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
• Job 31:18 though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
• Psalms 22:9 Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
• Psalms 22:10 From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
• Psalms 27:10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
• Psalms 35:14 I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
• Psalms 50:20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
• Psalms 51:5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Psalms 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
• Psalms 71:6 I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
• Psalms 109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
• Psalms 113:9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
• Psalms 131:2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
• Psalms 139:13 For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
• Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
• Proverbs 4:3 When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,
• Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
• Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
• Proverbs 15:20 A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
• Proverbs 19:26 He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
• Proverbs 20:20 Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
• Proverbs 23:22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
• Proverbs 23:25 May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
• Proverbs 28:24 He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
• Proverbs 29:15 A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
• Proverbs 30:11 There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
• Proverbs 30:17 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 These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:
• Ecclesiastes 5:15 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 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 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 Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
• Song of Solomon 6:9 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
• Jeremiah 15:8 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 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 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 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.