Strong's H517 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: אֵם (ʼêm)

Pronunciation: ame

Morphology: n-f

Derivation: a primitive word;

Definition: a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))

KJV Renderings: dam, mother, [idiom] parting.

Senses

1. mother
1. of humans
2. of Deborah's relationship to the people (fig.)
3. of animals
2. point of departure or division

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.