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Ezekiel 19:10
“Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
אֵםʼêm · ame
H517 · Hebrew
H517 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
- Derivation
- a primitive word;
- KJV renderings
- dam, mother, [idiom] parting.
- Grammar
- אִמְּ — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
- ךָ֥ — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 220 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:24Genesis 3:20Genesis 20:12Genesis 21:21Genesis 24:28
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אֵם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.