Women
of the Bible - Mothers
The word "mother" is used over 320 times in the
Bible. That does include the verses that say someone knew his wife and
conceived and bore a son. Many times, the mother is not even mentioned by name,
but God thinks mothers are important enough to include in Scripture.
In the following verses identify the name of the child,
the mother's name if given.
and if she had a positive (+) or negative (-) influence or
we don't know (?):
Verse Child Mother
influence
I Kings 11:26 _________________ ___________________
I Kings 14:21 _________________ ___________________
(II Chron 12:13)
I Kings 15:1-2, 13 _________________ ___________________
(II Chron. 15:16)
I Kings 22:42 _________________ ___________________
(II Chron. 20:31)
I Kings 22:51-52 _________________ ___________________
II Kings 11:1
(II Chron. 22:2-3, 10)
II Kings 3:1-2 _________________ ___________________
II Kings 8:26 _________________ ___________________
II Kings 9:22 _________________ ___________________
II Kings 12:1 _________________ ___________________
(II Chron. 24:1)
II Kings 14:1-2 _________________ ___________________
(II Chron. 25:1)
II Kings 15:1-2 _________________ ___________________
(II Chron. 26:3)
II Kings 15:32-33 _________________ ___________________
(II Chron. 27:1)
II Kings 18:1-2 _________________ ___________________
(II Chron. 29:1)
II Kings 21:1 _________________ ___________________
II Kings 22:1 _________________ ___________________
II Kings 23:36 _________________ ___________________
II Kings 24:8 _________________ ___________________
(Jer. 52:11)
II Kings 24:18 _________________ ___________________
I Chron. 2:26 _________________ ___________________
II Chron 13:1-2 _________________ ___________________
Mat. 27:55-56 _________________ ___________________
(Mark 15:40, 47; Mark 16:1; Luke 24:10)
Mat. 27:55-56 _________________ ___________________
Acts 12:12 _________________ ___________________
Rom. 16:13 _________________ ___________________
2 Tim. 1:5 _________________ ___________________
_________________ ___________________
When is a man to leave his mother? Gen. 2:24 (Mat. 19:5,
Mark 10:7, Eph. 5:31)
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Who was Eve the mother of? Gen. 3:20
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What was Sarah going to be the mother of? Gen. 17:16
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Who chose a wife for Ishmael from Egypt? Gen. 21:21
______________
What did Rebekah's brother and mother want her to be the
mother of?
Gen. 24:60 _________________________________________________
Whose tent did Isaac bring his wife to? Gen. 24:67
_________________
Marrying Rebekah comforted Isaac after whose death? Gen.
24:67 _____
Why did Jacob question his mother's plan? Gen. 27:11-12
___________
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Who did Jacob's mother say would bear the curse? Gen.
27:13 ________
Did Jacob obey his mother? Gen. 27:14
__________________________
When Isaac gave Jacob the blessing, who did he say would
bow down to him? Gen. 27:29 ____________________________________________
Whose house was Jacob to go to and find a wife? Gen. 28:2
__________
Who did Jacob obey? Gen. 28:5-7
______________________________
Who was the daughter of Jacob's mother's brother? Gen.
29:10 _______
Who did Reuben give mandrakes to? Gen. 30:14
___________________
Who did Jacob want to protect from his brother Esau? Gen.
32:11 _____
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Who did Joseph dream would bow down to him? Gen. 37:9-10
________
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Who was hired to nurse Moses? Ex. 2:7-8
________________________
Who does Ex. 20:12 say we are to honor? (Repeated in
Deut. 5:16) ___
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What was the penalty for smiting you father or mother?
Ex. 21:15 ______
What was the penalty for cursing your father or mother?
Ex. 21:17 _____
What should you not uncover? Lev. 18:7
_________________________
Who should everyone revere? Lev. 19:3
__________________________
What is considered wickedness? Lev. 20:14
_______________________
Who can't the high priest defile himself by going in to their dead bodies?
Lev. 21:10-11 _____________________________________________
What was the name of the mother whose son blasphemed the
name of the
Lord? Lev. 24:11 ____________________________________________
How long could a captured woman mourn for her father and
mother before
the man who captured her could marry her?
Deut. 21:10-13 __________
What was to happen to a rebellious son who didn't listen
to his father and
mother? Deut. 21:18-21
______________________________________
What was to happen to someone who treats his mother with
contempt?
Deut. 27:16 ________________________________________________
Who asked that her mother and the rest of her family be
spared?
Josh. 2:1, 13 ______________________________________________
What did Rahab need to do for her mother and relatives to
be spared?
Josh. 2:18 __________________________________________________
Who brought Rahab and her mother and relatives safely out
of Jericho?
Josh. 6:23 ________________________________________________
Who arose a mother in Israel? Judges 5:7 _______________________
Who was looking out her window for Sisera? Judges 5:28
____________
Who did Samson ask to get him a woman of Timnah as a
wife? Judges 14:2
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Did Samson's father and mother want Samson to marry a
Philistine?
Judges 14:3 ________________________________________________
What didn't Samson's father and mother know? Judges 14:4
__________
Where did Samson take his father and mother? Judges 14:5
__________
What didn't Samson tell his father and mother? Judges
14:6 __________
What did Samson give to his father and mother? Judges
14:8-9 _______
What didn't Samson tell his father and mother? Judges
14:9 _________
When Samson's wife tried to get him to tell her the
riddle, who did he tell
her he hadn't explained it to?
Judges 14:16 ______________________
What did the son steal from his mother? Judges 17:2
_______________
What had the mother planned to do with the silver? Judges
17:3 ______
What did the mother do with the silver when her son
returned it?
Judges 17:4
________________________________________________
Where did Naomi tell her daughters-in-law to return to?
Ruth 1:8 _____
Who made a little robe for Samuel year by year? I Sam.
2:19 _________
What was to happen to Agag's mother? I Sam. 15:33
_______________
Who did David ask the king of Moab permission to come to
him?
I Sam. 22:3 ________________________________________________
Where did Barzillai want to die? II Sam. 19:34, 37
_________________
Who did Nathan ask to speak to David when Adonijah was proclaiming
himself the king? I Kings. 1:11
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Who did Adonijah go through to try to get Abishag as a
wife?
I Kings 2:13-22
_____________________________________________
How did Solomon figure out who was the mother of the
living child?
I Kings 3:16-27 _____________________________________________
What condition was the once dead child in when Elijah
gave him back to his
mother? I Kings 17:23 _______________________________________
Who did Elisha want to kiss before following Elijah? I
Kings 19:19-20 ____
When the child was sick where did the father send him? II
Kings 4:19 ___
What happened to the child? II Kings 4:20
________________________
Who did the mother go to? II Kings 4:21-30
_______________________
What did Elisha do to the son? II Kings 4:31-37
____________________
Where were Jehoiachin, his mother, his servants, princes,
and officers
taken? II Kings 24:12, 15 _____________________________________
Why did Jabez' mother name him "Jabez"? I
Chron. 4:9 _____________
Who took care of Esther when her father and mother died?
Est. 2:7 ____
Who did Job call his mother? Job 17:14
__________________________
When will the Lord take care of you? Psa. 27:10
___________________
How did David's mother conceive
him? Psa. 51:5 ___________________
What does God do for the barren woman? Psa. 113:9
_______________
How did the psalmist calm and quiet his soul? Psa. 131:2
____________
Who formed our inward parts in our mother's womb? Psa.
139:13 _____
Whose law should a son not forsake? Pro. 1:8
_____________________
What was the writer in the sight of his mother? Pro. 4:3
_____________
What is a foolish son to his mother? Pro. 10:1
_____________________
What does a foolish son do to his mother? Pro. 15:20
_______________
What does the son in Pro. 19:26 do to his mother? _________________
Whose lamp will be put out in deep darkness? Pro. 20:20
____________
What are you not to do to your mother when she is old?
Pro. 23:22 ____
What should one let their mother be? Pro. 23:25
___________________
Who is a companion of a destroyer? Pro. 28:24
____________________
What does a child left to
himself bring to his mother? Pro. 29:15 ______
What does the generation in Pro. 30:11 not do to their
mother? _______
What will birds do to the eye of the person who scorns
his mother?
Pro.30:17 _________________________________________________
Who taught King Lemuel the things he wrote in Pro. 31?
Pro. 31:1 _____
Where did the woman want to take the one, she loved? Song
of Solomon 3:4, 8:2 __________________________________________________
Who crowned King Solomon on the day of his wedding?
Song of Solomon 3:11 _______________________________________
What was the writer's perfect one to her mother? Song of
Solomon 6:9 _
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Where did his mother bring him forth? Song of Solomon 8:5
__________
When did God call the person in Is. 49:1?
___________________________
Why was their mother put away? Is. 50:1
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How will God comfort? Is. 66:13
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What were the king and queen mother to do? Jer. 13:18
_____________
What was going to happen to the mother of the young men?
Jer. 15:8 ___
Why did his mother have woe? Jer. 15:10
_________________________
What would happen to the king and his mother? Jer. 22:26
___________
How will the mother of the Chaldeans feel? Jer. 50:10-12
____________
Who did the Lord say that Jerusalem's mother was? Eze.
16:3 ________
Who was the daughter like? Eze. 16:45
__________________________
How did the mother's daughter feel toward her husband and
children?
Eze. 16:45 _________________________________________________
What animal is the mother in Eze. 19:2 compared to? _______________
What did the mother teach her children to do? Eze. 19:3
____________
What is the mother likened to in Eze. 19:10?
______________________
What kind of stature did the mother have? Eze. 19:11
_____________
What happened to the mother? Eze. 19:12
_______________________
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Who will rise up against her
mother? Mic. 7:6 _____________________
Who will kill the false prophet? Zec. 13:3
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Who was the mother of Jesus? Mat. 1:18
_________________________
When the wisemen came to worship Jesus, who was in the
house with the
young child? Matt. 2:11
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Who was Joseph to flee to Egypt with? Matt. 2:13-14
_______________
Who was Joseph told to take back to Israel? Matt. 2:20-21
___________
What was the matter with Peter's wife's mother? Mat. 8:14
(Luke 4:38)
__________________________________________________________
What did Jesus come to do to a daughter and her mother?
Matt. 10:35 __________________________________________________________
Who are we not to love more than Jesus? Mat. 10:37 (Luke
14:26) ____
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Who was standing outside seeking to speak to Jesus? Mat.
12:47 ______
What question did Jesus ask the disciples? Mat. 12:48
______________
Who did Jesus gesture to saying
"Here are My mother and My brothers"?
Mat. 12:49 (Repeated in Mark 3:31-35 and Luke 8:19-21)
___________
What are those who do the will of the Father in heaven?
Mat. 12:50 ____
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Who was Jesus' mother? Matt. 13:55
____________________________
Who prompted the daughter of Herodias to ask for John the
Baptist's head
on a platter? Mat. 14:8 (Also in Mark 6:24-28)
____________________
Who did the girl give the platter with John's head to?
Mat. 14:11 ______
What did God command us to do to our father and mother?
Mat. 15:4
(Mark 7:10, Luke 18:20)
______________________________________
What is to be done to those who curse their father and
mother? Mat. 15:4 __________________________________________________________
What did the Pharisees put above God's commandments? Mat.
15:5-6
(Mark 7:10-12) _____________________________________________
What will those who leave houses and family for Jesus'
sake receive?
Mat. 19:29 (Mark 10:29)
_____________________________________
What did the mother of Zebedee's sons ask of Jesus? Mat.
20:20-21 ___
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Did Jesus give Zebedee's sons' mother what she asked for?
Mat. 20:22-23 __________________________________________________________
Who did Jesus allow to enter where the dead child was
lying? Mark 5:40 (Luke 8:51-56) _____________________________________________
What did Jesus do to the child? Mark 5:41-42
_____________________
What did Elizabeth say about Mary? Luke 1:43
____________________
What did Elizabeth say the baby's name would be? Luke
1:60 _________
How did Jesus' mother feel respond to the things spoken
of Him? Luke2:23 __________________________________________________________
Who did Simeon bless? Luke 2:34
______________________________
What didn't Joseph and His mother know about Jesus? Luke
2:43 ______
How did Joseph and Mary seek Jesus when He stayed in
Jerusalem? Luke 2:48 ______________________________________________________
What did Jesus' mother do with the things that had
happened? Luke 2:51 __________________________________________________________
What happened to the widow's only son? Luke 7:12
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What did Jesus have toward the mother? Luke 7:13
________________
What did Jesus say to the dead son? Luke 7:14
____________________
Who did Jesus deliver the now alive son to? Luke 7:15
______________
Who was at the wedding of Cana? John 2:1
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What did the mother of Jesus tell Him? John 2:3
___________________
What did the mother of Jesus tell the servants? John 2:5
____________
Where did Jesus' mother go with Him? John 2:12
__________________
Why were the Jews confused when Jesus said He came down
from heaven?
John 6:42 _________________________________________________
What relatives stood by the cross of Jesus? John 19:25
______________
Who did Jesus see as He hung on the cross? John 19:26
_____________
Who did Jesus say was now His mother's son? John 19:26
___________
Who did Jesus say was now the disciple He loved mother?
John 19:27 ___
From that hour what did John do with Mary? John 19:27
_____________
Whose mother was among the believers praying? Acts 1:14
__________
What is the first commandment with a promise? Eph. 6:2
____________
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How does Paul describe his relationship with the
Thessalonians? I Thes. 2:7 ___________________________________________________________
Where did Timothy's faith dwell first? 2 Tim. 1:5
___________________
Who is called the mother of harlots and of the
abominations of the earth?
Rev. 17:5 __________________________________________________
By Susie Cook