H2545 חֲמוֹת (chămôwth) kham-oth'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

mother-in-law

Strong's Definition

a mother-in-law

Derivation: or (shortened) חֲמֹת; feminine of H2524 (חָם);

KJV Usage: mother in law.

TWOT Reference: 674b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) mother-in-law, husband's mother

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3994

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

חֲמוֹת (cha.mot) — mother-in-law. mother-in-law, husband's mother

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

חָמֹות (H2545)

noun f · חָם

Relatives

mother-in-law = mother of one's spouse

RUT 1:14 · RUT 2:11 · RUT 2:18 · RUT 2:19 · RUT 2:19 · RUT 2:23 · RUT 3:1 · RUT 3:6 · RUT 3:16 · RUT 3:17 · MIC 7:6

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[חֲמוֹת] n.f. husband’s mother base

Bible Occurrences (10)

1:14 2:11 2:18 2:19 2:23 3:1 3:6 3:16 3:17

7:6

Ruth 1:14

Again they wept aloud..., and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law {goodbye}, but Ruth clung to her.

Ruth 2:11

Boaz replied......, I have been made fully aware...... of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before....

Ruth 2:18

She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to [Naomi] -.

Ruth 2:19

Then her mother-in-law asked her, Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be [the man] who noticed you. So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked -. The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz, she said.

Ruth 2:23

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

Ruth 3:1

One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?

Ruth 3:6

So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her [to do].

Ruth 3:16

When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, How did it go..., my daughter? Then Ruth told her all that [Boaz] had done for her.