Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
12 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “mother” →
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD ; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD .
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
