μήτηρ
mētēr
“mother”
Definition
a "mother" (literally or figuratively, immediate or remote)
apparently a primary word;
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
μήτηρ appears 78 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”
‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
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