I motherless, Hdt. 4.154, E. Ion 109, Id. ap. Phot. p.91 R.; of Melchizedek, Heb 7:3: of the number 7, Hierocl. in CA 20p.465M., cf. Ph. 1.24; but
II that is no mother, unmotherly,
pr. without mother; independent of maternal descent, Heb 7:3
G282 —
(
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:
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
* 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. ).