# H517 אֵם

אֵם (ʼêm), Strong’s H517: a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father)) KJV: dam, mother, [idiom] parting.. Occurs 220 times.

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*ʼêm* — a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))

KJV: dam, mother, [idiom] parting.

Occurs 220 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֵם 221 n.f. mother
- 1 lit. (human) mother
- 2 fig. of Deborah as caring for her people
- 3 of animals, dam
- 4 = point of departure or division

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=24) — Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- [Genesis 3:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=20) — The man called his wife Havah because she would be the mother of all the living.
- [Genesis 20:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=12) — Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- [Genesis 21:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=21) — He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- [Genesis 24:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=28) — The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.
- [Genesis 24:53](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=53) — The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave…
- [Genesis 24:55](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=55) — Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”
- [Genesis 24:67](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=67) — Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was…
- [Genesis 27:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=11) — Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
- [Genesis 27:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=13) — His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”