Lexicon :: Strong's G5503 - chēra

“They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”

Then a poor widow came and dropped in two tiny coins worth very little.

and was a widow for eighty-four years.[fn] She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.

“But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

Just as he neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town was also with her.

“And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

“yet because this widow keeps pestering me,[fn] I will give her justice, so that she doesn’t wear me out[fn] by her persistent coming.’ ”

“They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”

He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.[fn]

In those days, as the disciples were increasing in number, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the room upstairs. And all the widows approached him, weeping and showing him the robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was with them.

He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. He called the saints and widows and presented her alive.

I say to the unmarried[fn] and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

Support[fn] widows who are genuinely in need.

No widow is to be enrolled on the list for support unless she is at least sixty years old, has been the wife of one husband,

But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when they are drawn away from Christ by desire, they want to marry

If any[fn] believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it can help widows in genuine need.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways,

give her that much torment and grief.

For she says in her heart,

“I sit as a queen;

I am not a widow,

and I will never see grief.”