How many times is the word mother in the Bible?

Answer 1

There are 312 verses in which 'mother' appear. Here they are:

1. Genesis 2:24

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

2. Genesis 3:20

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

3. Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."

4. Genesis 20:12

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.

5. Genesis 21:21

While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

6. Genesis 22:20

[ Nahor's Sons ] Some time later Abraham was told, "Milcah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

7. Genesis 24:28

The girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.

8. Genesis 24:53

Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.

9. Genesis 24:55

But her brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl remain with us ten days or so; then you may go."

10. Genesis 24:67

Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

11. Genesis 27:11

Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin.

12. Genesis 27:13

His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."

13. Genesis 27:14

So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.

14. Genesis 27:29

May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed."

15. Genesis 28:2

Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

16. Genesis 28:5

Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

17. Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.

18. Genesis 29:10

When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.

19. Genesis 30:14

During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."

20. Genesis 32:11

Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.

21. Genesis 37:10

When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, "What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?"

22. Genesis 43:29

As he looked about and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked, "Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?" And he said, "God be gracious to you, my son."

23. Genesis 44:20

And we answered, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

24. Exodus 2:8

"Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother.

25. Exodus 20:12

"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

26. Exodus 21:15

"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.

27. Exodus 21:17

"Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.

28. Exodus 22:30

Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.

29. Exodus 23:19

"Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

30. Exodus 34:26

"Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."

31. Leviticus 18:7

" 'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.

32. Leviticus 18:9

" 'Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

33. Leviticus 18:13

" 'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.

34. Leviticus 19:3

" 'Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

35. Leviticus 20:9

" 'If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother, and his blood will be on his own head.

36. Leviticus 20:14

" 'If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.

37. Leviticus 20:17

" 'If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off before the eyes of their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.

38. Leviticus 20:19

" 'Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.

39. Leviticus 21:2

except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother,

40. Leviticus 21:11

He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother,

41. Leviticus 22:27

"When a calf, a lamb or a goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made to the LORD by fire.

42. Leviticus 24:10

[ A Blasphemer Stoned ] Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

43. Leviticus 24:11

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.)

44. Numbers 6:7

Even if his own father or mother or brother or sister dies, he must not make himself ceremonially unclean on account of them, because the symbol of his separation to God is on his head.

45. Numbers 12:12

Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."

46. Deuteronomy 5:16

"Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

47. Deuteronomy 14:21

Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

48. Deuteronomy 21:13

and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

49. Deuteronomy 21:18

[ A Rebellious Son ] If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,

50. Deuteronomy 21:19

his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.

51. Deuteronomy 22:6

If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.

52. Deuteronomy 22:7

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

53. Deuteronomy 22:15

then the girl's father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.

54. Deuteronomy 27:16

"Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

55. Deuteronomy 27:22

"Cursed is the man who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

56. Deuteronomy 27:23

"Cursed is the man who sleeps with his mother-in-law." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

57. Deuteronomy 33:9

He said of his father and mother, 'I have no regard for them.' He did not recognize his brothers or acknowledge his own children, but he watched over your word and guarded your covenant.

58. Joshua 2:13

that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will save us from death."

59. Joshua 2:18

unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house.

60. Joshua 6:23

So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.

61. Judges 5:7

Village life in Israel ceased, ceased until I, Deborah, arose, arose a mother in Israel.

62. Judges 5:28

"Through the window peered Sisera's mother; behind the lattice she cried out, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?'

63. Judges 8:19

Gideon replied, "Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the LORD lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you."

64. Judges 9:1

[ Abimelech ] Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother's brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother's clan,

65. Judges 11:1

Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.

66. Judges 14:2

When he returned, he said to his father and mother, "I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife."

67. Judges 14:3

His father and mother replied, "Isn't there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me. She's the right one for me."

68. Judges 14:5

Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him.

69. Judges 14:6

The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.

70. Judges 14:16

Then Samson's wife threw herself on him, sobbing, "You hate me! You don't really love me. You've given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer." "I haven't even explained it to my father or mother," he replied, "so why should I explain it to you?"

71. Judges 17:2

said to his mother, "The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse-I have that silver with me; I took it." Then his mother said, "The LORD bless you, my son!"

72. Judges 17:3

When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, "I solemnly consecrate my silver to the LORD for my son to make a carved image and a cast idol. I will give it back to you."

73. Judges 17:4

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into the image and the idol. And they were put in Micah's house.

74. Ruth 1:8

Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me.

75. Ruth 1:14

At this they wept again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her.

76. Ruth 2:11

Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband-how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.

77. Ruth 2:18

She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.

78. Ruth 2:19

Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!" Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. "The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz," she said.

79. Ruth 2:23

So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

80. Ruth 3:1

[ Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor ] One day Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not try to find a home for you, where you will be well provided for?

81. Ruth 3:6

So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.

82. Ruth 3:16

When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, "How did it go, my daughter?" Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her

83. Ruth 3:17

and added, "He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, 'Don't go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.' "

84. 1 Samuel 2:19

Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

85. 1 Samuel 15:33

But Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women." And Samuel put Agag to death before the LORD at Gilgal.

86. 1 Samuel 20:30

Saul's anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?

87. 1 Samuel 22:3

From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, "Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?"

88. 2 Samuel 17:25

Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Jether, an Israelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

89. 2 Samuel 19:37

Let your servant return, that I may die in my own town near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever pleases you."

90. 2 Samuel 20:19

We are the peaceful and faithful in Israel. You are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up the LORD's inheritance?"

91. 1 Kings 1:5

Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and said, "I will be king." So he got chariots and horses ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him.

92. 1 Kings 1:11

Then Nathan asked Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, "Have you not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has become king without our lord David's knowing it?

93. 1 Kings 2:13

[ Solomon's Throne Established ] Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. Bathsheba asked him, "Do you come peacefully?" He answered, "Yes, peacefully."

94. 1 Kings 2:19

When Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, the king stood up to meet her, bowed down to her and sat down on his throne. He had a throne brought for the king's mother, and she sat down at his right hand.

95. 1 Kings 2:20

"I have one small request to make of you," she said. "Do not refuse me." The king replied, "Make it, my mother; I will not refuse you."

96. 1 Kings 2:22

King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? You might as well request the kingdom for him-after all, he is my older brother-yes, for him and for Abiathar the priest and Joab son of Zeruiah!"

97. 1 Kings 3:27

Then the king gave his ruling: "Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother."

98. 1 Kings 7:14

whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was a man of Tyre and a craftsman in bronze. Huram was highly skilled and experienced in all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.

99. 1 Kings 11:26

[ Jeroboam Rebels Against Solomon ] Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon's officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.

100. 1 Kings 14:21

[ Rehoboam King of Judah ] Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.

101. 1 Kings 14:31

And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.

102. 1 Kings 15:2

and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother's name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

103. 1 Kings 15:13

He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive Asherah pole. Asa cut the pole down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

104. 1 Kings 17:23

Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, "Look, your son is alive!"

105. 1 Kings 19:20

Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. "Let me kiss my father and mother good-by," he said, "and then I will come with you." "Go back," Elijah replied. "What have I done to you?"

106. 1 Kings 22:42

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

107. 1 Kings 22:52

He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, because he walked in the ways of his father and mother and in the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

108. 2 Kings 3:2

He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He got rid of the sacred stone of Baal that his father had made.

109. 2 Kings 3:13

Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do we have to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother." "No," the king of Israel answered, "because it was the LORD who called us three kings together to hand us over to Moab."

110. 2 Kings 4:19

"My head! My head!" he said to his father. His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

111. 2 Kings 4:20

After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

112. 2 Kings 4:30

But the child's mother said, "As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So he got up and followed her.

113. 2 Kings 8:26

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

114. 2 Kings 9:22

When Joram saw Jehu he asked, "Have you come in peace, Jehu?" "How can there be peace," Jehu replied, "as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?"

115. 2 Kings 10:13

he met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, "Who are you?" They said, "We are relatives of Ahaziah, and we have come down to greet the families of the king and of the queen mother."

116. 2 Kings 11:1

[ Athaliah and Joash ] When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.

117. 2 Kings 12:1

[ Joash Repairs the Temple ] In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

118. 2 Kings 14:2

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.

119. 2 Kings 15:2

He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother's name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

120. 2 Kings 15:33

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother's name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.

121. 2 Kings 18:2

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.

122. 2 Kings 21:1

[ Manasseh King of Judah ] Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother's name was Hephzibah.

123. 2 Kings 21:19

[ Amon King of Judah ] Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother's name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

124. 2 Kings 22:1

[ The Book of the Law Found ] Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

125. 2 Kings 23:31

[ Jehoahaz King of Judah ] Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

126. 2 Kings 23:36

[ Jehoiakim King of Judah ] Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.

127. 2 Kings 24:8

[ Jehoiachin King of Judah ] Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.

128. 2 Kings 24:12

Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

129. 2 Kings 24:15

Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king's mother, his wives, his officials and the leading men of the land.

130. 2 Kings 24:18

[ Zedekiah King of Judah ] Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

131. 1 Chronicles 2:17

Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite. Caleb Son of Hezron

132. 1 Chronicles 2:26

Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

133. 1 Chronicles 2:46

Caleb's concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez.

134. 1 Chronicles 2:48

Caleb's concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah.

135. 1 Chronicles 4:9

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, "I gave birth to him in pain."

136. 2 Chronicles 2:14

whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my Lord , David your father.

137. 2 Chronicles 12:13

King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.

138. 2 Chronicles 13:2

and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother's name was Maacah, a daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

139. 2 Chronicles 15:16

King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive Asherah pole. Asa cut the pole down, broke it up and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

140. 2 Chronicles 20:31

[ The End of Jehoshaphat's Reign ] So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

141. 2 Chronicles 22:2

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

142. 2 Chronicles 22:3

He too walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him in doing wrong.

143. 2 Chronicles 22:10

[ Athaliah and Joash ] When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family of the house of Judah.

144. 2 Chronicles 24:1

[ Joash Repairs the Temple ] Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.