Limitless Word
μήτηρmḗtēr
GreekG338485 occurrences (KJV)

a "mother" (literally or figuratively, immediate or remote)

KJV renders it: mother

Where it appears(showing the first 79 of 85)

  • Matt 1:18Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
  • Matt 2:11They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
  • Matt 2:13Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”
  • Matt 2:14He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,
  • Matt 2:20“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”
  • Matt 2:21He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
  • Matt 10:35For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
  • Matt 10:37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
  • Matt 12:46While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
  • Matt 12:47One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.”
  • Matt 12:48But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
  • Matt 12:49He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
  • Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
  • Matt 13:55Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
  • Matt 14:8She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”
  • Matt 14:11His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady: and she brought it to her mother.
  • Matt 15:4For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
  • Matt 15:5But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”
  • Matt 15:6he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
  • Matt 19:5and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
  • Matt 19:12For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”
  • Matt 19:19‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
  • Matt 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
  • Matt 20:20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
  • Matt 27:56Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
  • Mark 3:31His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.
  • Mark 3:32A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.”
  • Mark 3:33He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”
  • Mark 3:34Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
  • Mark 3:35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”
  • Mark 5:40They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.
  • Mark 6:24She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
  • Mark 6:28and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.
  • Mark 7:10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
  • Mark 7:11But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God”;’
  • Mark 7:12then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,
  • Mark 10:7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
  • Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”
  • Mark 10:29Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
  • Mark 10:30but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
  • Mark 15:40There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
  • Luke 1:15For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
  • Luke 1:43Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
  • Luke 1:60His mother answered, “Not so; but he will be called John.”
  • Luke 2:33Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him,
  • Luke 2:34and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
  • Luke 2:43and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn’t know it,
  • Luke 2:48When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”
  • Luke 2:51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
  • Luke 7:12Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
  • Luke 7:15He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.
  • Luke 8:19His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.
  • Luke 8:20Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
  • Luke 8:21But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”
  • Luke 8:51When he came to the house, he didn’t allow anyone to enter in, except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother.
  • Luke 12:53They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
  • Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
  • Luke 18:20You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”
  • John 2:1The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.
  • John 2:3When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”
  • John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
  • John 2:12After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
  • John 3:4Nicodemus said 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?”
  • John 6:42They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’”
  • John 19:25But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
  • John 19:26Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
  • John 19:27Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
  • Acts 1:14All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
  • Acts 3:2A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
  • Acts 12:12Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
  • Acts 14:8At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
  • Rom 16:13Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
  • Gal 1:15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
  • Gal 4:26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
  • Eph 5:31“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
  • Eph 6:2“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
  • 1 Tim 5:2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
  • 2 Tim 1:5having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
  • Rev 17:5And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.