Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
4 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “mother” →
And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD .
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)