Strong’s G3994 · Greek
πενθερά
pentherá · pen-ther-ah'
Origin feminine of πενθερός (G3995);
Meaning a wife's mother
In the King James Version mother in law, wife's mother.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 8:14And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.
- Matthew 10:35For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
- Mark 1:30But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
- Luke 4:38And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
- Luke 12:53The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.