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Strong’s H491 · Hebrew

אַלְמָנוּת

ʼalmânûwth · al-maw-nooth'

Origin feminine of אַלְמָן (H488);

Meaning concrete, a widow; abstract, widowhood

In the King James Version widow, widowhood.

In 4 verses of the King James Version

  1. Genesis 38:14And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
  2. Genesis 38:19And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
  3. 2 Samuel 20:3And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
  4. Isaiah 54:4Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

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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