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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Mother-in-Law
• Mother
Thompson Chain Reference
• Mothers-in-Law
• Mothers
• Devout Mothers
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Seven Days with Mother
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Mothering Sunday
American Tract Society
• Mother
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Mother
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Mother
• Mary, Mother of Mark
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Mother
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Mother
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Mother (2)
• Mother
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Nonna, Mother of Gregory Nazianzen
• Juliana, Mother of the Virgin Demetrias
• Helena, Saint, Mother of Constantine the Great
King James Dictionary
• Mother
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Mother
• Mary, the Mother of Jesus
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Sunday, Mothering
• Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother
• Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of Mercy
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Mother
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Mother
• Mary Mother of Mark
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Wife's Mother
• Mother-in-Law
• Mother
• Mother
Whyte's Bible Characters
• The Mother of Zebedee's Children
Wilson's Bible Types
• Mother
Webster Dictionary
• Mothering
• Mothered
• Mother-of-Thyme
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Great Mother of the Gods
• Mother
• Mother Shipton
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• King's Mother
• Mother
• Mother-in-Law
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Mother
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Andrew of the Mother of God
• Holy Mother
• Kings Mother.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Shipton, Mother
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Anthony of the Mother of God
• Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca
• Dominic of the Mother of God
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Mother
Lexicons
• ܐܶܡܳܐ
• ܚܳܡܳܐ
• ἀμήτωρ
• Μαρία , Μαριάμ
• μήτηρ
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• אֵם
• גְּבִירָה
• דַּר
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The Hebrew words AM and Isaiah 8:4 . In addition to the usual meaning of "mother," AM sometimes signifies in the Bible grandmother, 1 Kings 15:10 , or some remote female ancestor, Genesis 3:20 . It is put for a chief city, 2 Samuel 20:19; for a benefactress, Judges 5:7; for a nation, as in the expressive English phrase, "the mother country," Isaiah 3:12 49:23 . The fond affection of a mother is often referred to in Scripture; and God has employed it to illustrate his tender love for his people, Isaiah 49:15 . Mothers are endowed with an all-powerful control over their offspring; and most men of eminence in the world have acknowledged their great indebtedness to maternal influence. When Bonaparte asked Madame Campan what the French nation most needed, she replied in one word, "Mothers." The Christian church already owes much, and will owe infinitely more, to the love, patience, zeal, and self-devotion of mothers in training their children for Christ.