Widow
אַלְמָנָהStrong’s H0490almanah (al-ma-nah)
Appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Almanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “widow”, “widows” and “widows its”. It appears in 54 verses of the Old Testament.
“And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.”
Meaning
- Widow
How it's translated
- a widow 19
- and to the widow 5
- and widow 5
- widows 4
- and a widow 4
- and the widow 4
- widows its 4
- widow 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 11
- Job 6
- Isaiah 6
- 1 Kings 5
- Psalms 5
- Jeremiah 5
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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 22:22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
- Exodus 22:24And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- 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 30:9But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
All 54 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אַלְמָנָה almanah · widow
widow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.