אֵם
ʼêm · ame
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive word;
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
- a mother (as the bond of the family)
- in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: dam, mother, [idiom] parting.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › water, chaos, the mighty deep
Strength, the leader of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֵם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
220 occurrences · 220 OT · 0 NT · 99 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and his mother's22 · 15%
- and his mother14 · 10%
- his mother's12 · 8%
- or his mother8 · 6%
- mother7 · 5%
- and thy mother7 · 5%
- the mother7 · 5%
- of thy mother7 · 5%
- his mother7 · 5%
- of his mother7 · 5%
- of my mother5 · 4%
- and her mother5 · 4%
- and my mother5 · 4%
- of thy mother's3 · 2%
- in his mother's3 · 2%
- unto his mother3 · 2%
- and mother3 · 2%
- of his mother's3 · 2%
- for his mother2 · 1%
- him to his mother2 · 1%
- there. and his mother's2 · 1%
- from my mother's2 · 1%
- or for his mother2 · 1%
- and the mother2 · 1%
- thy mother's2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.