Limitless Word
πενθεράpentherá
GreekG39946 occurrences (KJV)

a wife's mother

KJV renders it: mother in law, wife's mother

Where it appears(showing the first 5 of 6)

  • Matt 8:14When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever.
  • 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.
  • Mark 1:30Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.
  • Luke 4:38He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.
  • 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.”

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