Greek noun (feminine) · G5503
χήρα
cherakhay'-rah
widow
26 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chḗra
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5503is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5503
a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively
The King James renders it: widow.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chera is rendered "widow". It stands 26 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 12:40They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
Mark 12:40χηρῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's twenty-six uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- widows12
- a widow7
- widow6
- of widows1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 26, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- χήρα10
- χήρας6
- χῆραι3
- χήραν3
- χήραις2
- χηρῶν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular10N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural6N-APF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular3N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural3N-NPF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural2N-DPF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural2N-GPF
Mark
three uses
They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
- χηρῶνcheronnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: widow
Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury.
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: widow
Luke
nine uses
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a widow
But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
- χῆραιcherainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.
- χήρανcherannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a widow
As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a widow
And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: A widow
yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”
- χήρανcherannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: widow
They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
- χηρῶνcheronnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: of widows
and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
- χήρανcherannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: widow
“Truly I tell you,” He said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: widow
Acts
three uses
In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
- χῆραιcherainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
- χῆραιcherainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
Peter took her by the hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her to them alive.
- χήραςcherasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
1 Corinthians
one use
Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.
- χήραιςcheraisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
1 Timothy
eight uses
Honor the widows who are truly widows.
- χήραςcherasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: Widows
- χήραςcherasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: widow
The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a widow
A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, the wife of one man,
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: A widow
But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,
- χήραςcherasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.
- χήραςcherasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
- χήραιςcheraisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
James
one use
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- χήραςcherasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: widows
Revelation
one use
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
- χήραcheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a widow
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.