Haller's Concordance: MOTHER
- Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh. Gen. 2:24
- And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living. Gen. 3:20
- Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife. Gen. 20:12
- And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt. Gen. 21:21
- Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house all that she had heard. Gen. 24:28
- And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he gave them to Rebecca, for a present. He offered gifts also to her brothers, and to her mother. Gen. 24:53
- And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at least, ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart. Gen. 24:55
- Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death. Gen. 24:67
- And his mother said to him: Upon me be this curse, my son: only hear thou my voice, and go, fetch me the things which I have said. Gen. 27:13
- He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked. Gen. 27:14
- And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings. Gen. 27:29
- But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle. Gen. 28:2
- And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother. Gen. 28:5
- And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes. Gen. 30:14
- Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children. Gen. 32:11
- And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth? Gen. 37:10
- And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin, his brother by the same mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me? And he said: God be gracious to thee, my son. Gen. 43:29
- And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly. Gen. 44:20
- She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother. Ex. 2:8
- Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee. Ex. 20:12
- He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death. Ex. 21:15
- He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death. Ex. 21:17
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Lev. 18:7
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or abroad. Lev. 18:9
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: because she is thy mother's flesh. Lev. 18:13
- Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. Lev. 19:3
- He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die. He hath cursed his father, and mother: let his blood be upon him. Lev. 20:9
- If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he hath done a heinous crime. He shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you. Lev. 20:14
- If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity. Lev. 20:17
- Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt by thy father. He that doth this, hath uncovered the shame of his own flesh: both shall bear their iniquity. Lev. 20:19
- If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin. They shall die without children. Lev. 20:20
- But only for his kin, such as are near in blood: that is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also: Lev. 21:2
- Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled. Lev. 21:11
- And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.) Lev. 24:11
- Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because the consecration of his God is upon his head. Num. 6:7
- Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother's womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy. Num. 12:12
- Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee. Dt. 5:16
- If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers, Dt. 13:6
- And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her, and she shall be thy wife. Dt. 21:13
- If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: Dt. 21:18
- Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate: Dt. 22:15
- Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen. Dt. 27:16
- Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen. Dt. 27:22
- Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant, Dt. 33:9
- That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters, and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death. Josu. 2:13
- If, when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather together thy father and mother, and brethren, and all thy kindred into thy house. Josu. 2:18
- The valiant men ceased, and rested in Israel: until Debbora arose, a mother arose in Israel. Judg. 5:7
- His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from the dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the feet of his horses so slow? Judg. 5:28
- One that was wiser than the rest of his wives, returned this answer to her mother in law: Judg. 5:29
- He answered them: They were my brethren, the sons of my mother. As the Lord liveth, if you had saved them, I would not kill you. Judg. 8:19
- ¤ And Abimelech, the son of Jerobaal, went to Sichem, to his mother's brethren, and spoke to them, and to all the kindred of his mother's father, saying: Judg. 9:1
- And his mother's brethren spoke of him to all the men of Sichem, all these words, and they inclined their hearts after Abimelech, saying: He is our brother: Judg. 9:3
- Now Galaad had a wife of whom he had sons: who, after they were grown up, thrust out Jephte, saying: Thou canst not inherit in the house of our father, because thou art born of another mother. Judg. 11:2
- Because thou shalt conceive, and bear a son, and no razor shall touch his head: for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from his infancy, and from his mother's womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines. Judg. 13:5
- But he answered thus: Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son: beware thou drink no wine, nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite of God from his infancy, from his mother's womb until the day of his death. Judg. 13:7
- He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you, take her for me to wife. Judg. 14:2
- And his father and mother said to him: Is there no woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou wilt take a wife of the Philistines, who are uncircumcised? And Samson said to his father: Take this woman for me; for she hath pleased my eyes. Judg. 14:3
- Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Thamnatha. And when they were come to the vineyards of the town, behold a young lion met him, raging and roaring. Judg. 14:5
- And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and he tore the lion as he would have torn a kid in pieces, having nothing at all in his hand: and he would not tell this to his father and mother. Judg. 14:6
- And when he had taken it in his hands, he went on eating: and coming to his father and mother, he gave them of it, and they ate: but he would not tell them that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion. Judg. 14:9
- So she wept before Samson and complained, saying: Thou hatest me, and dost not love me: therefore thou wilt not expound to me the riddle, which thou hast proposed to the sons of my people. But he answered: I would not tell it to my father and mother: and how can I tell it to thee? Judg. 14:16
- Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men. Judg. 16:17
- Who said to his mother: The eleven hundred pieces of silver, which thou hadst put aside for thyself, and concerning which thou didst swear in my hearing, behold I have, and they are with me. And she said to him. Blessed be my son by the Lord. Judg. 17:2
- So he restored them to his mother, who said to him: I have consecrated and vowed this silver to the Lord, that my son may receive it at my hand, and make a graven and a molten god; so now I deliver it to thee. Judg. 17:3
- And he restored them to his mother: and she took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, to make of them a graven and a molten God, which was in the house of Michas. Judg. 17:4
- And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep again: Orpha kissed her mother in law, and returned: Ruth stuck close to her mother in law. Ruth 1:14
- And Ruth, the Moabitess, said to her mother in law: If thou wilt, I will go into the field, and glean the ears of corn that escape the hands of the reapers, wheresoever I shall find grace with a householder, that will be favourable to me. And she answered her: Go, my daughter. Ruth 2:2
- And he answered her: All hath been told me, that thou hast done to thy mother in law after the death of thy husband: and how thou hast left thy parents, and the land wherein thou wast born, and art come to a people which thou knewest not heretofore. Ruth 2:11
- Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled. Ruth 2:18
- And her mother in law said to her: Where hast thou gleaned today, and where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that hath had pity on thee. And she told her with whom she had wrought: and she told the man's name, that he was called Booz. Ruth 2:19
- And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my daughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man's field some one may resist thee. Ruth 2:22
- ¤ After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee. Ruth 3:1
- And she went down to the barnfloor, and did all that her mother in law had bid her. Ruth 3:6
- And came to her mother in law; who said to her: What hast thou done, daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her. Ruth 3:16
- And she said: Behold he hath given me six measures of barley: for he said: I will not have thee return empty to thy mother in law. Ruth 3:17
- And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him on the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the solemn sacrifice. 1 Ki. 2:19
- And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal. 1 Ki. 15:33
- Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother? 1 Ki. 20:30
- And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech thee, till I know what God will do for me. 1 Ki. 22:3
- I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and amiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only son, so did I love thee. 2 Ki. 1:26
- Now Absalom appointed Amasa in Joab's stead over the army: and Amasa was the son of a man who was called Jethra, of Jezrael, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Naas, the sister of Sarvia who was the mother of Joab. 2 Ki. 17:25
- But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own city, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother. But there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the king, and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee. 2 Ki. 19:37
- Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord? 2 Ki. 20:19
- And Nathan said to Bethsabee, the mother of Solomon: Hast thou not heard that Adonias, the son of Haggith, reigneth, and our lord David knoweth it not? 3 Ki. 1:11
- And Adonias, the son of Haggith, came to Bethsabee the mother of Solomon. And she said to him: Is thy coming peaceable? He answered: It is peaceable. 3 Ki. 2:13
- Then Bethsabee came to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonias: and the king arose to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat down upon his throne: and a throne was set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand. 3 Ki. 2:19
- And she said to him: I desire one small petition of thee; do not put me to confusion. And the king said to her: My mother ask, for I must not turn away thy face. 3 Ki. 2:20
- And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother: Why dost thou ask Abisag, the Sunamitess, for Adonias? ask for him also the kingdom; for he is my elder brother, and hath Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the son of Sarvia. 3 Ki. 2:22
- The king answered, and said: Give the living child to this woman, and let it not be killed; for she is the mother thereof. 3 Ki. 3:27
- Jeroboam also, the son of Nabat, an Ephrathite, of Sareda, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was named Sarua, a widow woman, lifted up his hand against the king. 3 Ki. 11:26
- And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Juda: Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess. 3 Ki. 14:21
- And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them, in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess: and Abiam, his son, reigned in his stead. 3 Ki. 14:31
- He reigned three years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom. 3 Ki. 15:2
- And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom. 3 Ki. 15:10
- Moreover, he also removed his mother, Maacha, from being the princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron: 3 Ki. 15:13
- And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth. 3 Ki. 17:23
- And he forthwith left the oxen, and ran after Elias, and said: Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which was my part, I have done to thee. 3 Ki. 19:20
- He was five and thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Azuba, the daughter of Salai. 3 Ki. 22:42
- And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. 3 Ki. 22:52
- And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made. 4 Ki. 3:2
- And Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together these three kings, to deliver them into the hands of Moab? 4 Ki. 3:13
- He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother. 4 Ki. 4:19
- And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died. 4 Ki. 4:20
- But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed her. 4 Ki. 4:30
- Ochozias was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri king of Israel. 4 Ki. 8:26
- And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel, thy mother, and her many sorceries, are in their vigour. 4 Ki. 9:22
- ¤ Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed. 4 Ki. 11:1
- ¤ In the seventh year of Jehu, Joas began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Sebia, of Bersabee. 4 Ki. 12:1
- He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign; and nine and twenty years he reigned in Jerusalem; the name of his mother was Joadan, of Jerusalem. 4 Ki. 14:2
- He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia, of Jerusalem. 4 Ki. 15:2
- He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa, the daughter of Sadoc. 4 Ki. 15:33
- He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zacharias. 4 Ki. 18:2
- ¤ Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Haphsiba. 4 Ki. 21:1
- Two and twenty years old was Amon when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth, the daughter of Harus, of Jeteba. 4 Ki. 21:19
- ¤ Josias was eight years old when he began to reign: he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida, the daughter of Hadaia, of Besecath. 4 Ki. 22:1
- Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna. 4 Ki. 23:31
- Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Zebida, the daughter of Phadaia, of Ruma. 4 Ki. 23:36
- Joachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Nohesta, the daughter of Elnathan, of Jerusalem. 4 Ki. 24:8
- And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign. 4 Ki. 24:12
- And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he carried into captivity, from Jerusalem, into Babylon. 4 Ki. 24:15
- Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobna. 4 Ki. 24:18
- And Jerameel married another wife, named Atara, who was the mother of Onam. 1 Par. 2:26
- And Jabes was more honourable than any of his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabes, saying: Because I bore him with sorrow. 1 Par. 4:9
- King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and reigned: he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name of his mother was Naama an Ammonitess. 2 Par. 12:13
- Three years he reigned in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Michaia, the daughter of Uriel of Gabaa: and there was war between Abia and Jeroboam. 2 Par. 13:2
- Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron. 2 Par. 15:16
- And Josaphat reigned over Juda, and he was five and thirty years old, when he began to reign: and he reigned five and twenty years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Azuba the daughter of Selahi. 2 Par. 20:31
- Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri. 2 Par. 22:2
- He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly. 2 Par. 22:3
- For Athalia his mother, seeing that her son was dead, rose up, and killed all the royal family of the house of Joram. 2 Par. 22:10
- ¤ Joas was seven years old when he began to reign: and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Sebia of Bersabee. 2 Par. 24:1
- ¤ Amasias was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem, the name of his mother was Joadan of Jerusalem. 2 Par. 25:1
- Ozias was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem. 2 Par. 26:3
- ¤ Joatham was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa the daughter of Sadoc. 2 Par. 27:1
- ¤ Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias. 2 Par. 29:1
- When God shall take my soul, thou shalt bury my body: and thou shalt honour thy mother all the days of her life: Tob. 4:3
- Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their journey, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set out both together. Tob. 5:22
- And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us. Tob. 5:23
- At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace. Tob. 5:28
- But his mother wept and was quite disconsolate, and said: Woe, woe is me, my son; why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the light of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life, the hope of our posterity? Tob. 10:4
- And Tobias said to him: I know that my father and mother now count the days, and their spirit is grievously afflicted within them. Tob. 10:9
- Admonishing her to honour her father and mother in law, to love her husband, to take care of the family, to govern the house, and to behave herself irreprehensibly. Tob. 10:13
- And now, children, hear me, and do not stay here: but as soon as you shall bury your mother by me in one sepulchre, without delay direct your steps to depart hence: Tob. 14:12
- And it came to pass that after the death of his mother, Tobias departed out of Ninive with his wife, and children, and children's children, and returned to his father and mother in law. Tob. 14:14
- And he had brought up his brother's daughter Edissa, who by another name was called Esther: now she had lost both her parents: and was exceeding fair and beautiful. And her father and mother being dead, Mardochai adopted her for his daughter. Esther 2:7
- And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21
- I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister. Job 17:14
- (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:) Job 31:18
- For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother. Ps. 22:9
- I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou art my God, Ps. 22:10
- For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken me up. Ps. 27:10
- Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son: Ps. 50:20
- For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me. Ps. 51:5
- I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother. Ps. 69:8
- By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing: Ps. 71:6
- May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Ps. 109:14
- Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children. Ps. 113:9
- If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul. Ps. 131:2
- For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb. Ps. 139:13
- My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Pr. 1:8
- For I also was my father's son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother: Pr. 4:3
- My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. Pr. 6:20
- ¤ A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother. Pr. 10:1
- A wise son maketh a father joyful: but the foolish man despiseth his mother. Pr. 15:20
- A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him. Pr. 17:25
- He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy. Pr. 19:26
- He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness. Pr. 20:20
- Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old. Pr. 23:22
- Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee. Pr. 23:25
- He that stealeth any thing from his father, or from his mother: and saith, This is no sin, is the partner of a murderer. Pr. 28:24
- The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame. Pr. 29:15
- There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. Pr. 30:11
- The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it. Pr. 30:17
- ¤ The words of king Lamuel. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him. Pr. 31:1
- As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour. Eccl. 5:15
- Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept. Cant. 1:6
- When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me. Cant. 3:4
- Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the joy of his heart. Cant. 3:11
- One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her. Cant. 6:9
- ¤ Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me? Cant. 8:1
- I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates. Cant. 8:2
- Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee. Cant. 8:5
- ¤ I myself am a mortal man, like all others, and of the race of him, that was first made of the earth, and in the womb of my mother I was fashioned to be flesh. Wis. 7:1
- And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom went before me, and I knew not that she was the mother of them all. Wis. 7:12
- And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up a treasure. Sir. 3:5
- He that honoureth his father shall enjoy a long life: and he that obeyeth the father, shall be a comfort to his mother. Sir. 3:7
- The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation. Sir. 3:11
- For good shall be repaid to thee for the sin of thy mother. Sir. 3:16
- Of what an evil fame is he that forsaketh his father: and he is cursed of God that angereth his mother. Sir. 3:18
- In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a husband to their mother. Sir. 4:10
- And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he will have mercy on thee more than a mother. Sir. 4:11
- Honour thy father, and forget not the groanings of thy mother: Sir. 7:29
- And she will meet him as an honourable mother, and will receive him as a wife married of a virgin. Sir. 15:2
- Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest in the midst of great men: Sir. 23:18
- I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. Sir. 24:24
- ¤ Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all. Sir. 40:1
- Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power: Sir. 41:21
- For they treated him evil, who was consecrated a prophet from his mother's womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and destroy, and to build again, and renew. Sir. 49:9
- And now pray ye to the God of all, who hath done great things in all the earth, who hath increased our days from our mother's womb, and hath done with us according to his mercy. Sir. 50:24
- For before the child know to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the Assyrians. Isa. 8:4
- ¤ Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been mindful of my name. Isa. 49:1
- ¤ Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away. Isa. 50:1
- As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. Isa. 66:13
- Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations. Jer. 1:5
- Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities. Jer. 15:8
- Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me. Jer. 15:10
- And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth, to comfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them to drink of the cup, to comfort them for their father and mother. Jer. 16:7
- Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. Jer. 20:14
- Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception. Jer. 20:17
- And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a strange country, in which you were not born, and there you shall die: Jer. 22:26
- Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is made even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the nations, a wilderness unpassable, and dry. Jer. 50:12
- ¤ Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna. Jer. 52:1
- And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite. Ezec. 16:3
- Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter. Ezec. 16:44
- Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite. Ezec. 16:45
- And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions? Ezec. 19:2
- Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters. Ezec. 19:10
- They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee. Ezec. 22:7
- Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother. Ezec. 23:2
- And they shall come near no dead person, lest they be defiled, only their father and mother, and son and daughter, and brother and sister, that hath not had another husband: for whom they may become unclean. Ezec. 44:25
- Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts. Osee 2:2
- For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink. Osee 2:5
- And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent. Osee 4:5
- A tumult shall arise among thy people: and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed as Salmana was destroyed, by the house of him that judged Baal in the day of battle, the mother being dashed in pieces upon her children. Osee 10:14
- For the son dishonoureth the father, and the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a man's enemies are they of his own household. Mic. 7:6
- And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall prophesy any more, his father and his mother that brought him into the world, shall say to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou hast spoken a lie in the name of the Lord. And his father, and his mother, his parents, shall thrust him through, when he shall prophesy. Zach. 13:3
- And he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brethren: 1 Ma. 13:28
- ¤ It came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh against the law, for which end they were tormented with whips and scourges. 2 Ma. 7:1
- He commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had spoken first: and the skin of his head being drawn off, to chop off also the extremities of his hands and feet, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on. 2 Ma. 7:4
- And when he was now maimed in all parts, he commanded him, being yet alive, to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the fryingpan: and while he was suffering therein long torments, the rest, together with the mother, exhorted one another to die manfully, 2 Ma. 7:5
- Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld her seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God: 2 Ma. 7:20
- But when the young man was not moved with these things, the king called the mother, and counselled her to deal with the young man to save his life. 2 Ma. 7:25
- And last of all, after the sons, the mother also was consumed. 2 Ma. 7:41
- Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. Mt. 1:18
- And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him: and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Mt. 2:11
- And after they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him. Mt. 2:13
- Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and retired into Egypt: Mt. 2:14
- Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child. Mt. 2:20
- Who arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. Mt. 2:21
- And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying, and sick of a fever; Mt. 8:14
- For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. Mt. 10:35
- He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. Mt. 10:37
- As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. Mt. 12:46
- And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee. Mt. 12:47
- But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? Mt. 12:48
- And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brethren. Mt. 12:49
- For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother. Mt. 12:50
- Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude: Mt. 13:55
- But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist. Mt. 14:8
- And his head was brought in a dish: and it was given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother. Mt. 14:11
- For God said: Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. Mt. 15:4
- But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee. Mt. 15:5
- And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition. Mt. 15:6
- And he said: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. Mt. 19:5
- For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it. Mt. 19:12
- Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Mt. 19:19
- And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting. Mt. 19:29
- Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him. Mt. 20:20
- Among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. Mt. 27:56
- And Simon's wife's mother lay in a fit of a fever: and forthwith they tell him of her. Mk. 1:30
- And his mother and his brethren came; and standing without, sent unto him, calling him. Mk. 3:31
- And the multitude sat about him; and they say to him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. Mk. 3:32
- And answering them, he said: Who is my mother and my brethren? Mk. 3:33
- And looking round about on them who sat about him, he saith: Behold my mother and my brethren. Mk. 3:34
- For whosoever shall do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother. Mk. 3:35
- And they laughed him to scorn. But he having put them all out, taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. Mk. 5:40
- Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But she said: The head of John the Baptist. Mk. 6:24
- And brought his head in a dish: and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother. Mk. 6:28
- For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die. Mk. 7:10
- But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban (which is a gift) whatsoever is from me shall profit thee. Mk. 7:11
- And further you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or mother, Mk. 7:12
- For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife. Mk. 10:7
- Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, bear not false witness, do no fraud, honour thy father and mother. Mk. 10:19
- Jesus answering said: Amen I say to you, there is no man who hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, Mk. 10:29
- And there were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joseph and Salome, Mk. 15:40
- And Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of Joseph, beheld where he was laid. Mk. 15:47
- ¤ And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus. Mk. 16:1
- For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. Lk. 1:15
- And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? Lk. 1:43
- And his mother answering, said: Not so. But he shall be called John. Lk. 1:60
- And his father and mother were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning him. Lk. 2:33
- And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted. Lk. 2:34
- And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. Lk. 2:48
- And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart. Lk. 2:51
- And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever: and they besought him for her. Lk. 4:38
- And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her. Lk. 7:12
- And he that was dead sat up and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother. Lk. 7:15
- And his mother and brethren came unto him: and they could not come at him for the crowd. Lk. 8:19
- And it was told him: Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. Lk. 8:20
- Who answering, said to them: My mother and my brethren are they who hear the word of God and do it. Lk. 8:21
- And when he was come to the house, he suffered not any man to go in with him, but Peter and James and John, and the father and mother of the maiden. Lk. 8:51
- The father shall be divided against the son and the son against his father: the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother: the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Lk. 12:53
- If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Lk. 14:26
- Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Honour thy father and mother. Lk. 18:20
- ¤ And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. Jn. 2:1
- And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine. Jn. 2:3
- His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye. Jn. 2:5
- After this, he went down to Capharnaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples: and they remained there not many days. Jn. 2:12
- Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born again? Jn. 3:4
- And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then saith he: I came down from heaven? Jn. 6:42
- Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. Jn. 19:25
- When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. Jn. 19:26
- After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own. Jn. 19:27
- All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. Acts 1:14
- And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple. Acts 3:2
- And considering, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, who was surnamed Mark, where many were gathered together and praying. Acts 12:12
- And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. Acts 14:8
- Salute Rufus, elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine. Rom. 16:13
- But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, Gal. 1:15
- But that Jerusalem which is above is free: which is our mother. Gal. 4:26
- For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh. Eph. 5:31
- Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise: Eph. 6:2
- Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunice, and I am certain that in thee also. 2 Tim. 1:5
- Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever. Heb. 7:3
- And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the earth. Apoc. 17:5
- And with a woman he refresheth his soul: and neither doth he remember father, nor mother, nor countrie. 3 Esd. 4:21
- And againe, man loueth his wife more then father or mother. 3 Esd. 4:25
- Thus saith our Lord omnipotent, haue not I desired you, as a father his sonnes, and a mother her daughters, and as a nurce her litle ones, 4 Esd. 1:28
- Their mother that bare them, sayth to them: Goe children, because I am a wydow and forsaken. 4 Esd. 2:2
- And I cal thee o father a witnes vpon the mother of the children, that would not keepe my testament, 4 Esd. 2:5
- that thou geue them confusion, & their mother into spoile, that there be no generation of them. 4 Esd. 2:6
- Mother embrace thy children, bring them vp with ioy. As a doue confirme their feete: because I haue chosen thee, sayth our Lord. 4 Esd. 2:15
- Feare not o mother of the children, because I haue chosen thee, saith our Lord. 4 Esd. 2:17
- Be pleasant thou mother with thy children, because I wil deliuer thee sayth our Lord. 4 Esd. 2:30
- And I asked, and sayd: Wheras thou hast now geuen me a way, I wil speake before thee: for our mother, of whom thou toldest me, yet she is yong: now draweth nigh to old age. 4 Esd. 5:50
- Because Sion our mother is sorroweful with al sorrowe, and humbled, and mourneth most bitterly. 4 Esd. 10:7
- For thou hast disposed thy lyfe in wisdom, and thyne vnderstanding thou hast called mother: 4 Esd. 13:55