Widowhood
אַלְמָנוּתStrong’s H0491almanut (al-ma-nut)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Almanut is the Hebrew word usually translated “widowhood her”, “widowhood of” and “widowhood your”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.”
Meaning
- Widowhood
How it's translated
- widowhood her 2
- widowhood of 1
- widowhood your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 38:19And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
- 2 Samuel 20:3And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
- Isaiah 54:4Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Hebrew dictionary
אַלְמָנוּת almanut · widowhood
widowhood
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “widowhood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WIDOWHOOD, noun
- The state of being a widow.
- Estate settled on a widow. [Not in use.]
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.