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Lamentations 2:12
“They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- לְ — preposition
- אִמֹּתָ — common noun, feminine, plural, construct
- ם֙ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, plural
- 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.