H3490 יָתוֹם
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 42 KJV occurrences
יָתוֹם
yâthôwm · yaw-thome'
Definition
a bereaved person
KJV Renderings
fatherless (child), orphan.
Derivation / Etymology
from an unused root meaning to be lonely;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 42)
- Exodus 22:22¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 26:12¶ When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
- Job 24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Psalms 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
- Psalms 109:12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
- Isaiah 9:17Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Jeremiah 49:11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.