1 Timothy 5:2
Elderly nashim treat as imahot (mothers); younger nashim as achayot (sisters) in all hatohar (moral purity).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
In Context
3Honor [with support] almanot (widows) that are really almanot.
Cross References
John 19:26Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, therefore, having seen his Em (Mother) and the talmid haahuv having stood by, says to his Em, Isha, hinei your ben!
1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstain from every appearance of ra'ah (evil).
1 Timothy 5:3Honor [with support] almanot (widows) that are really almanot.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 5:2-3
Directions Concerning Reproofs. ( a. d. 64.) 1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. Here the apostle gives rules to Timothy, and in him to other ministers, in reproving. Ministers are reprovers by office; it is a part, though the least pleasing part, of their office; they are to preach the word, to reprove and rebuke, 2 Tim. iv. 2 . A great difference is to be made in our reproofs, according to the… Read the whole commentary →