H490 אַלְמָנָה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 54 KJV occurrences
אַלְמָנָה
ʼalmânâh · al-maw-naw'
Definition
a widow; also a desolate place
KJV Renderings
desolate house (palace), widow.
Derivation / Etymology
feminine of H488 (אַלְמָן);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 54)
- Genesis 38:11Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
- Deuteronomy 10:18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
- Deuteronomy 24:21When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- 1 Kings 17:10So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
- Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
- Proverbs 15:25The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
- Jeremiah 7:6If 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:
- Ezekiel 19:7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.