Widow
χήραStrong’s G5503chēra
Appears in 25 verses of the New Testament
In short
Chēra is the Greek word usually translated “widows” and “widow”. It appears in 25 verses of the New Testament.
“Honour widows that are widows indeed.”
Meaning
Usually translated “widows” and “widow”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- widows 13
- a widow 7
- widow 6
- of widows 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 9
- 1 Timothy 6
- Mark 3
- Acts 3
- Matthew 1
- 1 Corinthians 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Timothy 5:4In contextBut if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
- 1 Timothy 5:5In contextNow she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
- 1 Timothy 5:9In contextLet not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
- 1 Timothy 5:11In contextBut the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
- 1 Timothy 5:16In contextIf any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
- Matthew 23:14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Greek dictionary
χήρα chēra · widow
χήρα, -ας, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for אַלְמָנָה ;] a widow: Mat.23:13 (Rec., R, mg.), Mrk.12:40-43, Luk.2:37 4:25 7:12 18:3, 5 20:47 21:2-3, Act.6:1 9:39, 41, 1Co.7:8, 1Ti.5:3-5 5:11 5:16, Jas.1:27; γυνὴ χ., Luk.4:26; of one of an ordo viduarum (see CGT, in l), 1Ti.5:9; metaphorically, of a city forsaken, Rev.18:7.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “widow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WIDOW, noun
[Latin See Wide.]
A woman who has lost her husband by death.
All definitions and other forms of “widow”
WIDOW, verb transitive
- To bereave of a husband; but rarely used except in the participle.
- To endow with a widows right. [Unusual.]
- To strip of any thing good.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.