Mother-in-law

1. Mother-in-law, husband's mother

• mother-in-law her 7
• mother-in-law your 2
• to mother-in-law her 1
• on mother-in-law her 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Ruth 9
• Micah 1

2 books in all.

• Ruth 2:11And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
• Ruth 2:18And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
• Ruth 2:19And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man’s name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
• Ruth 2:23So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
• Ruth 3:1Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
• Ruth 3:6And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “motherinlaw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.