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Widow
Featured studies
6 results- StudyJudith, the Widow Who Saved a City | MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Widow, the Orphan & the StrangerA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Widow's MitesA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyPrayer in Luke: Jesus at Every HingeThe Gospel of prayer: Jesus praying at the baptism, the Twelve, the confession, the mountain, the garden, the cross: plus the three prayer-parables found only here.
- StudyElisha: the Double PortionA double portion asked for at the Jordan, and a miracle-catalog that doubles Elijah's: reaching, in Naaman, the story Jesus cites as proof grace was never meant to stop at Israel's border.
Verses
97 results- Verse1 Timothy 5:3Honor the widows who are truly widows.
- VerseExodus 22:22You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
- VersePsalms 94:6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
- VersePsalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
- VerseLuke 21:2and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
People
3 results- PersonAnnaA prophetess of the tribe of Asher, a widow of great age who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day. She gives thanks over the…
- PersonNaomiElimelech's widow who returned from Moab calling herself Mara — "the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me" — and whose emptiness God filled through Ruth's faithfulness and…
- PersonElishaElijah's successor with the firstborn's double portion; the prophet of the healed spring, the widow's oil, the Shunammite's son, Naaman's cleansing, and the axe head that swam.
Places
2 results- PlaceZarephathThe Sidonian town where a starving Gentile widow shared her last meal with Elijah and her jar of flour did not run out, the story Jesus cited at Nazareth.
- PlaceNainA Galilean town named in Scripture only here, where Jesus met the funeral procession of a widow's only son. Moved with compassion, he stopped the bier and raised the young man…
Words (Strong's)
5 results- WordH490 אַלְמָנָה · ʼalmânâh (Hebrew)a widow. The Hebrew word stands 56 times in the original text.
- WordG5503 χήρα · chḗra (Greek)a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively. The Greek word stands 26 times in the original text.
- WordH491 אַלְמָנוּת · ʼalmânûwth (Hebrew)concrete, a widow. The Hebrew word stands 4 times in the original text.
- WordH1350 גָּאַל · gâʼal (Hebrew)to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.). The Hebrew word stands 104 times in the original text.
- WordH2992 יָבַם · yâbam (Hebrew)to marry a (deceased) brother's widow. The Hebrew word stands 3 times in the original text.
Themes
3 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
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1 resultApocrypha (study resources)
17 results- Study resourceJudith 8:4So Judith was a widow in her house three years and four months.
- Study resourceBaruch 6:38They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.
- Study resource2 Esdras 2:20Do right to the widow, judge for the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,
- Study resourceSirach 35:14He will not despise the supplication of the fatherless; nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint.
- Study resourceBaruch 4:16These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.
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H490אַלְמָנָה ʼalmânâh — a widowG5503χήρα chḗra — a widow (as lacking a husband),
literally or figurativelyH491אַלְמָנוּת ʼalmânûwth — concrete, a widowH1350גָּאַל gâʼal — to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.)H2992יָבַם yâbam — to marry a (deceased) brother's widow