Quick Definition
whose mother?s name is not recorded or known
Strong's Definition
motherless, i.e. of unknown maternity
Derivation: from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G3384 (μήτηρ);
KJV Usage: without mother
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀμήτωρ, (ορος, ὁ, ἡ (μήτηρ), without a mother, motherless; in Greek writings:
1. born without a mother, e. g. Minerva, Euripides, Phoen. 666f, others; God himself, inasmuch as he is without origin, Lactantius, instt. 4, 13, 2.
2. bereft of a mother, Herodotus 4, 154, elsewhere.
3. born of a base or unknown mother, Euripides, Ion 109 cf. 837.
4. unmotherly, unworthy of the name of mother: μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ, Sophocles El. 1154. Cf. Bleek on Heb. vol. ii., 2, p. 305ff
5. in a significance unused by the Greeks, 'whose mother is not recorded in the genealogy': of Melchizedek, Heb_7:3; (of Sarah by Philo in de temul. § 14, and rer. div. haer. § 12; (cf. Bleek as above)); cf. the classic ἀνολυμπιάς.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀμήτωρ amētōr 1x
pr. without mother; independent of maternal descent, Heb_7:3
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἀμήτωρ , -ορος , ὁ , ἡ
( < μήτηρ ), without a mother ( freq . in Gk . writers of the gods): ἀπάτωρ ἀ .,
of one without recorded genealogy, Heb_7:3 ( cf. MM , VGT , s.v. ).
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀμήτωρ [page 27]
ἀμήτωρ does not happen to occur in our documents. For its connotation in Heb_7:3 see ἀπάτωρ , and note Grimm s citations from Philo : the evidence is quite sufficient to dispose of Grimm s own note that the signification is unused by the Greeks. For the word cf. also the line from Euripides (drama unknown) cited by Wilamowitz Sitz. d. Berl. Ak. , 1907, p. 7 Ἄφιδνε , γαίας υἱὲ τῆς ἀμήτορος .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀμήτωρ [Etym: μήτηρ] "without mother, motherless", Hdt. , Eur. "unmotherly", μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ Soph.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀμήτωρ, -ορος, ὁ, ἡ
(μήτηρ), without a mother (frequently in Gk. writers of the gods): ἀπάτωρ ἀ.
of one without recorded genealogy, Heb.7:3 (cf. MM, VGT, see word)
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