Mother imagery uses womb, nursing, maternal comfort, remembered children, or tender care to picture nurture, formation, compassion, sorrow, or covenant belonging.
Mother imagery uses womb, nursing, maternal comfort, remembered children, or tender care to picture nurture, formation, compassion, sorrow, or covenant belonging.
A kinship-and-nurture motif in which mother, womb, nursing child, maternal comfort, travail, or maternal remembrance signifies literal motherhood, dependent trust, divine compassion, formation, covenant identity, or sorrow turned to hope.
These examples show how Mother, Nursing, Womb, and Maternal-Compassion Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
as a nursing father beareth the sucking child
Moses describes leadership through the burden of carrying and nursing-like care.
her bowels yearned upon her son
The true mothers compassion exposes genuine maternal attachment.
thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mothers breasts
Infant dependence at the breast becomes an image of early trust in God.
as a weaned child with his mother
A quieted soul is pictured as a weaned child resting with its mother.
Can a woman forget her sucking child?
Maternal memory is used as an analogy for the LORDs unfailing remembrance of Zion.
as one whom his mother comforteth
Maternal comfort pictures the consolation God promises to his people.
the sorrows of a travailing woman
Travail imagery pictures crisis and delayed wisdom.
as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings
Maternal protection imagery expresses Christs lament over Jerusalem.
Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all
Mother language is applied to covenant identity and heavenly Jerusalem.
as a nurse cherisheth her children
Paul describes apostolic gentleness through nursing care.
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