Quick Definition
a mother
Strong's Definition
a "mother" (literally or figuratively, immediate or remote)
Derivation: apparently a primary word;
KJV Usage: mother
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μήτηρ, genitive μητρός, dative μητρί, accusative μητέρα, ἡ (from Homer down; from Sanskritma, 'to measure'; but whether denoting the 'moulder,' or the 'manager' is debated; cf. Vanicek, p. 657; Curtius, § 472; (cf. μέτρον)), Hebrew ΰΕν, a mother; properly: Mat_1:18; Mat_2:11, and often; tropically, of that which is like a mother: Mat_12:49; Mar_3:35; Joh_19:27; Rom_16:13, cf. 1Ti_5:2; a city is called ἡ μήτηρ τῶν πορνῶν, that produces and harbors the harlots, Rev_17:5; of a city where races of men (i. e. Christians) originated, Gal_4:26 (here G T Tr WH omit; L brackets παντον (on the origin of which cf. Lightfoot at the passage)).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μήτηρ mētēr 83x
a mother, Mat_1:18 ; Mat_12:49-50 , et al. freq.; a parent city, Gal_4:26 ; Rev_17:5 mother.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μήτηρ ,
gen .,
μητρός , ἡ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H517 ;]
mother: Mat_1:18 ; Mat_2:11 , al. ; fig ., of one who takes the place of a mother, ἰδοὺ , ἡ μ . μου , Mat_12:49 ( cf. Mat_12:50 , Mar_3:35 , Joh_19:27 , Rom_16:13 , 1Ti_5:2 ); of a city, ἥτις ἐσὶν μ . ἡμῶν , Gal_4:26 ; symbolically of Babylon, ἡ μ . τ . πορνῶν , Rev_17:5 .
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μήτηρ [page 411]
It is not necessary to illustrate at length this common noun, but one or two points may be noted. Thus for its loose use (cf. Rom_16:13 and see s.vv. ἀδελφός , πατήρ , τέκνον ) we may cite P OxyX. 1296 (iii/A.D) where the writer greets each of two women as mother .8 ἀσπάζομαι τὴν μητέραν (for the form cf. Moulton Proleg. p. 49) μου Ταμιέαν , and .15 τὴν μητέραν μου Τιμπεσοῦρ̣(ιν ) : cf. ib. XIV. 1678 (iii/A.D.), where the same designation is applied to at least three persons. Similarly in P Giss I. 78 .1 (ii/A.D.) Ἀλινὴ Τετῆτι τῆι μητρὶ χαίρειν , the word is used as the pet-name of an old servant. Μήτηρ is used ter as voc. in BGU III. 814 (iii/A.D.). For the adj. μητρικός cf. P Ryl II. 153 .33 (A.D. 138 61) ὁ μητρικός μου δοῦλος Μύρων , my mother s slave Myron. In MGr it has developed the sense motherly. The MGr noun μητέρα shows the acc. sing, treated as nom. on the analogy of such a noun as χώρα .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μήτηρ "a mother", Hom. , etc.; of animals, "a dam", id=Hom. ; ἀπό or ἐκ μητρός from one's "mother's womb", Pind. , Aesch. also of lands, μήτηρ μήλων, θηρῶν "mother" of flocks, of game, Il. ; of Earth, γῆ πάντων μ. Hes. ; γῆ μήτηρ Aesch. ; ὦ γαῖα μῆτερ Eur. :—also ἡ Μάτηρ alone for Δημήτηρ, Hdt. of one's native land, μᾶτερ ἐμά, Θήβα Pind. , etc. poet. as the "source" of events, μ. ἀέθλων, of Olympia, id=Pind. ; night is "the mother" of day, Aesch. ; the grape of wine, id=Aesch.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μήτηρ
genitive,
μητρός, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for אֵם ;]
mother: Mat.1:18 2:11, al.; figuratively, of one who takes the place of a mother, ἰδοὺ, ἡ μ. μου, Mat.12:49 (cf. Mat.12:50, Mrk.3:35, Jhn.19:27, Rom.16:13, 1Ti.5:2); of a city, ἥτις ἐσὶν μ. ἡμῶν, Gal.4:26; symbolically of Babylon, ἡ μ. τ. πορνῶν, Rev.17:5
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