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Then 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.
Read in context →How 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.
Read in context →10 occurrences in 10 verses.
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ʼalmânâh · al-maw-naw'
a widow; also a desolate place
Strong's KJV usage: desolate house (palace), widow.
Strong's first: Genesis 38:11Strong's last: Malachi 3:5
Open full H490 profile →chḗra · khay'-rah
a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--widow.
Strong's first: Mark 12:42Strong's last: Revelation 18:7
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In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
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WIDOW, noun [Latin See Wide.] A woman who has lost her husband by death. Luke 2:37.
WIDOWs chamber, in London, the apparel and furniture of the bed-chamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she is entitled.
WIDOW, verb transitive
1. To bereave of a husband; but rarely used except in the participle.
2. To endow with a widows right. [Unusual.]
3. To strip of any thing good.
The widowd isle in mourning--
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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