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Strong's G3384 · Greek

μήτηρ

meter · may'-tare

apparently a primary word; a "mother" (literally or figuratively, immediate or remote)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

μήτηρ (G3384)

83 μήτηρ , gen., μητρός, ἡ , [in LXX chiefly for אֵם ;] mother : Mt 1:18 2:11 , al.; fig., of one who takes the place of a mother, ἰδοὺ, ἡ μ. μου , Mt 12:49 (cf. Mt 12:50 , Mk 3:35 , Jo 19:27 , Ro 16:13 , I Ti 5:2 ); of a city, ἥτις ἐσὶν μ. ἡμῶν , Ga 4:26 ; symbolically of Babylon, ἡ μ. τ. πορνῶν , Re 17:5 .

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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