Exodus 22:22
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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Fatherless
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James 1:27
Pure 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.
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11 occurrences in 11 verses.
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יָתוֹם
yâthôwm · yaw-thome'
38 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
a bereaved person
Strong's KJV usage: fatherless (child), orphan.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 22:24Strong's last: Malachi 3:5
Open full H3490 profile →ὀρφανός
orphanós · or-fan-os'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
bereaved ("orphan"), i.e. parentless
Strong's KJV usage: :--comfortless, fatherless.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: James 1:27Strong's last: James 1:27
Open full G3737 profile →אַיִן
ʼayin · ah'-yin
1 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle
Strong's KJV usage: else, except, fail, (father-) less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare 370.
Strong's first: Lamentations 5:3Strong's last: Lamentations 5:3
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H3490
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
H3490
And 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.
H3490
And 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.
H3490
And 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.
H3490
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
H3490
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
H3490
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
H3490
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
H3490
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
H3490
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
H3490
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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fatherless
F'ATHERLESS, adjective
1. Destitute of a living father; as a fatherless child.
3. Without a known author.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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