Orphan
יָתוֹםStrong’s H3490yatom (ya-tom)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yatom is the Hebrew word usually translated “fatherless”, “fatherless ones” and “fatherless one”. It appears in 42 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
- An orphan, fatherless
How it's translated
- fatherless 9
- fatherless ones 8
- a fatherless one 7
- to the fatherless one 5
- and the fatherless one 3
- and fatherless 3
- and a fatherless one 2
- and fatherless ones 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 11
- Psalms 8
- Job 7
- Isaiah 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Exodus 2
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 10:18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
- Deuteronomy 14:29And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
- Deuteronomy 16:11And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
- Deuteronomy 16:14And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
All 42 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יָתוֹם yatom · orphan
an orphan, fatherless
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “orphan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OR'PHAN, noun
[Gr.]
All definitions and other forms of “orphan”
OR'PHAN, adjective
Bereaved of parents.
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.