Mother: 7 definitions

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Mother means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Christianity, Jainism, Prakrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. On this page you will also find search and cross-referencing tools.

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General definition (in Christianity)

Source: archive.org: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Mother refers to:—The superiority of the Hebrew over all contemporaneous systems of legislation and of morals is strongly shown in the higher estimation of the mother in the Jewish family, as contrasted with modern Oriental as well as ancient Oriental and classical usage. The king’s mother, as appears in the case of Bath-sheba, was treated with special honor. (Exodus 20:12; Leviticus 19:3; 5:16; 21:18,21; 1 Kings 2:29; Proverbs 10:1; 15:20; 17:25; 29:15; 31:1,30)

Source: archive.org: Nave's Topical Bible

Mother definition and references: –General scriptures concerning Exodus 20:12; 21:15,17; Leviticus 18:7; 19:3; 20:9; Deuteronomy 5:16; 1 Kings 19:20; Proverbs 1:8; 6:20; 10:1; 15:20; 19:26; 20:20; 23:22-25; 28:24; 29:15; 30:11,17; Matthew 10:37; 15:4-6; 19:19; Mark 7:10-12; 10:19; Luke 18:20; Ephesians 6:2; 2imothy 1:5
–See Children, Duty Of
–See Parents

Source: archive.org: Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

Mother refers to:—The ordinary applications of the word require no illustration; but the following points of Hebrew usage may be noticed. When the father had more than one wife, the son seems to have confined the title of 'mother' to his real mother, by which he distinguished her from the other wives of his father. Hence the source of Joseph's peculiar interest in Benjamin is indicated in , by his being his mother's son.' The other brethren were the sons of his father by other wives. Nevertheless, when this precision was not necessary, the step-mother was sometimes styled mother. Thus Jacob speaks of Leah as Joseph's mother, for his real mother had long been dead. The step-mother was however more properly distinguished from the womb-mother by the name of 'father's wife.' The word 'mother' was also, like father, brother, sister, employed by the Hebrews in a somewhat wider sense than is usual with us. It is used of a grandmother, and even of any female ancestor; of a benefactress, and as expressing intimate relationship.

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Source: archive.org: Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Mother refers to:—Honored in Israel as she is not in the East generally; one superiority of Judaism over other contemporary systems (1 Kings 2:19). King Solomon rose up to meet and bowed himself unto Bathsheba, and set her on his right hand (Leviticus 19:3). Figuratively, a city is mother of the surrounding villages its daughters (Joshua 15:45; 2 Samuel 20:19). Ezekiel (Ezekiel 21:21) uses "mother of the way" for the parting of the way into two roads which branch from it, as from a common parent; however, Havernick, from a Arabic idiom, translated it as "the highway."

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