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Nave Topical Bible
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Thompson Chain Reference
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Seven Days with Mother
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American Tract Society
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
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• Mary, Mother of Mark
Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Mother (2)
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Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Nonna, Mother of Gregory Nazianzen
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• Helena, Saint, Mother of Constantine the Great
King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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• Mary, the Mother of Jesus
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Sunday, Mothering
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Webster Dictionary
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• Mother-of-Thyme
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Andrew of the Mother of God
• Holy Mother
• Kings Mother.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Anthony of the Mother of God
• Clerks Regular of the Mother of God of Lucca
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• ܐܶܡܳܐ
• ܚܳܡܳܐ
• ἀμήτωρ
• Μαρία , Μαριάμ
• μήτηρ
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• אֵם
• גְּבִירָה
• דַּר
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the term for the female parent of a child. The word, like father, is common to Indo-European languages, cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Mutter, Du. moeder, Swed. and Dan. moder; Gothic is the exception in Teutonic languages, the word being aithei, cf. atta, father; from Lat. mater come, in Romanic, Fr. mere, Ital., Span. and Port., madre. Greek has ,u7'7rhp, (Attic and Ionic), µaTfP (Doric). The Russian word is mat. The Sansk. mata points to an original derivation from a stem ma, to measure, or make. Of the many transferred applications of "mother" may be mentioned those to the church, to nature, to the earth, and to a city or nation, as the parent of other cities, nations, colonies, &c. As a title "mother" is particularly applied to the head of a religious community of women. For "mother-of-pearl" see Pearl. There is a particular application of "mother" to the scum which rises to the surface of a liquor during the process of fermentation, and also to a mass of gummy stringy consistency formed in vinegar in the process of acetous fermentation, hence known as "mother of vinegar" (see Vinegar). This is usually, however, taken to be another word altogether, and connected with Du. modder, mud, mire.

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