STRONGS NUMBER H2545


Word Summary
chamoth: husband's mother
Original Word: חֲמוֹת
Transliteration: chamoth
Phonetic Spelling: (kham-oth')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: husband's mother
Meaning: husband's mother
Strong's Concordance
mother in law

Or (shortened) chamoth {kham-oth'}; feminine of cham; a mother-in-law -- mother in law.

see HEBREW cham

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2545. chamoth

[חָמוֺת‎] noun feminine husband's mother (Late Hebrew חָמוֺת‎, Aramaic חֲמָתָא‎; Arabic husband's mother; Assyrian êmêtu, ZimBP 48; Ethiopic ) — only suffix חֲמוֺתֵךְRuth 2:11; 3:17; חֲמוֺתָהּ1:14 7t.; חֲמֹתָהּMicah 7:6; — of Naomi Ruth 1:14; 2:11, 18, 19 (twice in verse); 2:23; 3:1, 6, 16, 17; בַּחֲמֹתָהּ כַּלָּה בְאִמָּ֔הּ קָמָ֫ה בַּתMicah 7:6.