widow
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H490 — אַלְמָנָה
al.ma.nah · widow · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 38:11 · אַלְמָנָ֣הThen Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.Exodus 22:22 · אַלְמָנָ֥הYou must not mistreat any widow or orphan.Exodus 22:24 · אַלְמָנ֔וֹתMy anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.Leviticus 21:14 · אַלְמָנָ֤הHe is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,Leviticus 22:13 · אַלְמָנָ֣הBut if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.Numbers 30:9 · אַלְמָנָ֖הEvery vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.Deuteronomy 10:18 · וְאַלְמָנָ֑הHe executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.Deuteronomy 14:29 · וְהָֽאַלְמָנָה֙Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.Deuteronomy 16:11 · וְהָאַלְמָנָ֖הand you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.Deuteronomy 16:14 · וְהָאַלְמָנָ֖הAnd you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.Deuteronomy 24:17 · אַלְמָנָֽה׃Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.Deuteronomy 24:19 · וְלָאַלְמָנָ֖הIf you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.Deuteronomy 24:20 · וְלָאַלְמָנָ֖הWhen you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.Deuteronomy 24:21 · וְלָאַלְמָנָ֖הWhen you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.Deuteronomy 26:12 · וְלָֽאַלְמָנָ֔הWhen you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.Deuteronomy 26:13 · וְלָאַלְמָנָ֔הThen you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.Deuteronomy 27:19 · וְאַלְמָנָ֑ה‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’2 Samuel 14:5 · אַלְמָנָ֥ה“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.1 Kings 7:14 · אַלְמָנָ֨הHe was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.1 Kings 11:26 · אַלְמָנָ֔הNow Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,1 Kings 17:9 · אַלְמָנָ֖ה“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”1 Kings 17:10 · אַלְמָנָ֖הSo Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”1 Kings 17:20 · הָאַלְמָנָ֞הThen he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”Job 22:9 · אַ֭לְמָנוֹתYou sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.Job 24:3 · אַלְמָנָֽה׃They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.Job 24:21 · וְ֝אַלְמָנָ֗הThey prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.Job 27:15 · וְ֝אַלְמְנֹתָ֗יוHis survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.Job 29:13 · אַלְמָנָ֣הThe dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.Job 31:16 · אַלְמָנָ֣הIf I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,Psalm 68:5 · אַלְמָנ֑וֹתA father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.Psalm 78:64 · וְ֝אַלְמְנֹתָ֗יוHis priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.Psalm 94:6 · אַ֭לְמָנָהThey kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.Psalm 109:9 · אַלְמָנָֽה׃May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.Psalm 146:9 · וְאַלְמָנָ֣הThe LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.Proverbs 15:25 · אַלְמָנָֽה׃The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.Isaiah 1:17 · אַלְמָנָֽה׃ סLearn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”Isaiah 1:23 · אַלְמָנָ֖הYour rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.Isaiah 9:17 · אַלְמְנֹתָיו֙Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.Isaiah 10:2 · אַלְמָנוֹת֙to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.Isaiah 13:22 · בְּאַלְמנוֹתָ֔יוHyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.Isaiah 47:8 · אַלְמָנָ֔הSo now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’Jeremiah 7:6 · וְאַלְמָנָה֙if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,Jeremiah 15:8 · אַלְמְנֹתָיו֙I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.Jeremiah 18:21 · וְאַלְמָנ֔וֹתTherefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.Jeremiah 22:3 · וְאַלְמָנָ֤הThis is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.Jeremiah 49:11 · וְאַלְמְנֹתֶ֖יךָAbandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”Lamentations 1:1 · כְּאַלְמָנָ֑הHow lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.Lamentations 5:3 · כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.Zechariah 7:10 · וְאַלְמָנָ֧הDo not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’Malachi 3:5 · אַלְמָנָ֨ה“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.