King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER G282
Transliteration: amētōr
Phonetic Spelling: (am-ay'-tore)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: without a mother
Meaning: without a mother
ἀμήτωρ, (ορος, ὁ, ἡ (μήτηρ), without a mother, motherless; in Greek writings:
Word Summary
amētōr: without a mother
Original Word: ἀμήτωρTransliteration: amētōr
Phonetic Spelling: (am-ay'-tore)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: without a mother
Meaning: without a mother
Strong's Concordance
without mother. From a (as a negative particle) and meter; motherless, i.e. Of unknown maternity -- without mother.
see GREEK a
see GREEK meter
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 282: ἀμήτωρἀμήτωρ, (ορος, ὁ, ἡ (μήτηρ), without a mother, motherless; in Greek writings:
1. born without a mother, e. g. Minerva, Euripides, Phoen. 666f, others; God himself, inasmuch as he is without origin, Lactantius, instt. 4, 13, 2.
2. bereft of a mother, Herodotus 4, 154, elsewhere.
3. born of a base or unknown mother, Euripides, Ion 109 cf. 837.
4. unmotherly, unworthy of the name of mother: μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ, Sophocles El. 1154. Cf. Bleek on Heb. vol. ii., 2, p. 305ff
5. in a significance unused by the Greeks, 'whose mother is not recorded in the genealogy': of Melchizedek, Hebrews 7:3; (of Sarah by Philo in de temul. § 14, and rer. div. haer. § 12; (cf. Bleek as above)); cf. the classic ἀνολυμπιάς.