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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry
TDNT Reference: 9:440,1313
Strong's Number G5503 matches the Greek χήρα (chēra),
which occurs 27 times in 25 verses
in the TR Greek.
“They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”
Summoning his disciples, he said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.
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.’
“They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”
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.
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.
The widow who is truly in need and left all alone has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;
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.
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