Exodus 22:24
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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Widows
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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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χήρα
chḗra · khay'-rah
14 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--widow.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:14Strong's last: James 1:27
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ʼalmânâh · al-maw-naw'
12 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences
a widow; also a desolate place
Strong's KJV usage: desolate house (palace), widow.
Strong's first: Exodus 22:24Strong's last: Ezekiel 22:25
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H490
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
H490
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
H490
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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widow
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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