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Strong’s G5503 · Greek

χήρα

chḗra · khay'-rah

Origin feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of χάσμα (G5490) through the idea of deficiency;

Meaning a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively

In the King James Version widow.

In 25 verses of the King James Version

  1. Matthew 23:14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
  2. Mark 12:40Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
  3. Mark 12:42And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
  4. Mark 12:43And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
  5. Luke 2:37And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
  6. Luke 4:25But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
  7. Luke 4:26But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
  8. Luke 7:12Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
  9. Luke 18:3And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
  10. Luke 18:5Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
  11. Luke 20:47Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
  12. Luke 21:2And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
  13. Luke 21:3And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
  14. Acts 6:1And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
  15. Acts 9:39Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
  16. Acts 9:41And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
  17. 1 Corinthians 7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
  18. 1 Timothy 5:3Honour widows that are widows indeed.
  19. 1 Timothy 5:4But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
  20. 1 Timothy 5:5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
  21. 1 Timothy 5:9Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
  22. 1 Timothy 5:11But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
  23. 1 Timothy 5:16If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
  24. James 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
  25. Revelation 18:7How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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