chamot · mother-in-law

What it means

chamot (חֲמוֹת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mother-in-law”.

The mother of one's husband.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The husband's mother.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Ruth×10
• Micah×1

• Ruth 1:14

  They lifted up their voice and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

• Ruth 2:11

  Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully told to me, all that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, and how you abandoned your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not know before.

• Ruth 2:18

  She picked it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Then she brought out and gave her what she had left over after she was satisfied.

• Ruth 2:19

  Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? May the one who took notice of you be blessed.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

• Ruth 2:23

  So she clung to the young women of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

• Ruth 3:1

  Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek for you a place of rest, where it may be well with you?

• Ruth 3:6

  So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.

• Ruth 3:16

  She came to her mother-in-law, and she said, “Who are you, my daughter?” And she told her all that the man had done for her.

• Ruth 3:17

  And she said, “These six measures of barley he gave me, for he said to me, ‘Do not go empty to your mother-in-law.’”

• Micah 7:6

  For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

And 1 more times.