Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H490
אַלְמָנָה
al.ma.nah · “widow”
Used 56 times across 16 books
Definition
widow
Where it appears
Genesis1
Exodus2
Leviticus2
Numbers1
Deuteronomy11
2 Samuel1
1 Kings5
Job6
Psalms5
Proverbs1
Isaiah6
Jeremiah5
Lamentations2
Ezekiel6
Zechariah1
Malachi1
In the text
Genesis 38:11Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.Exodus 22:21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.Exodus 22:23If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;Leviticus 21:14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.Leviticus 22:13But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.Numbers 30:10And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;Deuteronomy 10:18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.Deuteronomy 16:11And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.Deuteronomy 16:14And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
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