Hebrew noun (feminine) · H491
אַלְמָנוּת
almanuthal-maw-nooth'
widowhood
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼalmânûwth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H491is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H491
concrete, a widow; abstract, widowhood
The King James renders it: widow, widowhood.
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
almanuth is rendered "widowhood". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:14she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
Genesis 38:14אַלְמְנוּתָ֜הּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- widowhood her2
- widowhood of1
- widowhood your1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- אַלְמְנ֥וּת1
- אַלְמְנוּתָ֜הּ1
- אַלְמְנוּתָֽהּ׃1
- אַלְמְנוּתַ֖יִךְ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcfsc/Sp3fs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2fs
Genesis
two uses
she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
- אַלְמְנוּתָ֜הּʾalmenutahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: widowhood her
Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
- אַלְמְנוּתָֽהּ׃ʾalmenutahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: widowhood her
2 Samuel
one use
When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
- אַלְמְנ֥וּתʾalmenutnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: widowhood of
Isaiah
one use
Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
- אַלְמְנוּתַ֖יִךְʾalmenutayikhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: widowhood your
Where it leads
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.