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H0490אַלְמָנָהal.ma.nah

widowPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 2
  4. 1
  5. 11
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 1
  11. 5
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 6
  19. 5
  20. 1
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 6
  24. 5
  25. 2
  26. 6
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 1
  39. 1

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56 occurrences in 54 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Job 24:21

    He devoureth the barren that beareth not; and doeth not good to the widow.

    וְ֝אַלְמָנָ֗ה (אַלְמָנָ֗ה) 'al.ma.Nah “a widow”

  2. Job 27:15

    Those that remain of him shall be buried by pestilence, and his widows shall make no lamentation.

    וְ֝אַלְמְנֹתָ֗יו (אַלְמְנֹתָ֗י) 'al.me.no.Ta “widows”

  3. Job 29:13

    The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

    אַלְמָנָ֣ה 'al.ma.Nah “a widow”

  4. Job 31:16

    If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

    אַלְמָנָ֣ה 'al.ma.Nah “a widow”

  5. Psalms 68:6

    A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

    אַלְמָנ֑וֹת 'al.ma.Not “widows”

  6. Psalms 78:64

    Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

    וְ֝אַלְמְנֹתָ֗יו (אַלְמְנֹתָ֗י) 'al.me.no.Ta “widows”

  7. Psalms 94:6

    They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

    אַ֭לְמָנָה 'Al.ma.nah “[the] widow”

  8. Psalms 109:9

    Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

    אַלְמָנָֽה׃ 'al.ma.Nah “a widow”

  9. Psalms 146:9

    The LORD preserveth the strangers; He upholdeth the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked He maketh crooked.

    וְאַלְמָנָ֣ה (אַלְמָנָ֣ה) 'al.ma.Nah “widow[s]”

  10. Proverbs 15:25

    The LORD will pluck up the house of the proud; but He will establish the border of the widow.

    אַלְמָנָֽה׃ 'al.ma.Nah “a widow”

  11. Isaiah 1:17

    Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

    אַלְמָנָֽה׃ 'al.ma.Nah “[the] widow”

  12. Isaiah 1:23

    Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

    אַלְמָנָ֖ה 'al.ma.Nah “a widow”

  13. Isaiah 9:16

    Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall He have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is ungodly and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh wantonness. For all this His anger is not turned away, bu

    אַלְמְנֹתָיו֙ (אַלְמְנֹתָי) 'al.me.no.Ta “widows”

  14. Isaiah 10:2

    To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right of the poor of My people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

    אַלְמָנוֹת֙ 'al.ma.nOt “widows”

  15. Isaiah 13:22

    And jackals shall howl in their castles, and wild-dogs in the pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

    בְּאַלְמנוֹתָ֔יו (אַלְמנוֹתָ֔י) 'al.m.no.Ta “palaces”

  16. Isaiah 47:8

    Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart: 'I am, and there is none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children';

    אַלְמָנָ֔ה 'al.ma.Nah “a widow”

  17. Jeremiah 7:6

    if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;

    וְאַלְמָנָה֙ (אַלְמָנָה֙) 'al.ma.Nah “[the] widow”

  18. Jeremiah 15:8

    Their widows are increased to Me above the sand of the seas; I bring upon them, against the mother, a chosen one, even a spoiler at noonday; I cause anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

    אַלְמְנֹתָיו֙ (אַלְמְנֹתָי) 'al.me.no.Ta “widows”

  19. Jeremiah 18:21

    Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and hurl them to the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

    וְאַלְמָנ֔וֹת (אַלְמָנ֔וֹת) 'al.ma.Not “widows”

  20. Jeremiah 22:3

    Thus saith the LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence, to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

    וְאַלְמָנָ֤ה (אַלְמָנָ֤ה) 'al.ma.Nah “widow”

  21. Jeremiah 49:11

    Leave thy fatherless children, I will rear them, and let thy widows trust in Me.

    וְאַלְמְנֹתֶ֖יךָ (אַלְמְנֹתֶ֖י) 'al.me.no.Tei. “widows”

  22. Lamentations 1:1

    HOW DOTH the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

    כְּאַלְמָנָ֑ה (אַלְמָנָ֑ה) 'al.ma.Nah “a widow”

  23. Lamentations 5:3

    We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

    כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃ (אַלְמָנֽוֹת) 'al.ma.Not “widows”

  24. Ezekiel 19:7

    And he knew their castles, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

    אַלְמְנוֹתָ֔יו (אַלְמְנוֹתָ֔י) 'al.me.no.Ta “widows”

  25. Ezekiel 22:7

    In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

    וְאַלְמָנָ֖ה (אַלְמָנָ֖ה) 'al.ma.Nah “widow”