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Lexicon :: Strong's G5503 - chēra

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χήρα
Transliteration
chēra (Key)
Pronunciation
khay'-rah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of χάσμα (G5490) through the idea of deficiency
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 9:440,1313

Strong’s Definitions

χήρα chḗra, khay'-rah; feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of G5490 through the idea of deficiency; a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively:—widow.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's G5503 in the following manner: widow (27x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's G5503 in the following manner: widow (27x).

  1. a widow

  2. metaph. a city stripped of its inhabitants and riches is represented under the figure of a widow

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
χήρα chḗra, khay'-rah; feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of G5490 through the idea of deficiency; a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively:—widow.
STRONGS G5503:
χήρα, χήρας, ἡ (feminine of the adjective χῆρος, 'bereft'; akin to χέρσος, sterile, barren, and the Latincareo (but cf. Curtius, § 192)), from Homer, Iliad 6, 408 down, the Sept. for אַלְמָנָה, a widow: Matthew 23:14-13Rec.; Mark 12:40, 42; Luke 2:37; Luke 4:25; Luke 7:12; Luke 18:3, 5; Luke 20:47; Luke 21:2; Acts 6:1; Acts 9:39, 41; 1 Corinthians 7:8; 1 Timothy 5:3-5, 9, 11, 16; James 1:27; with γυνή added (2 Samuel 14:5, and often in the Greek writings from Homer, Iliad 2, 289 down), Luke 4:26; a city stripped of inhabitants and riches is represented under the figure of a widow, Revelation 18:7.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Samuel
14:5
Mark
12:40; 12:42
Luke
2:37; 4:25; 4:26; 7:12; 18:3; 18:5; 20:47; 21:2
Acts
6:1; 9:39; 9:41
1 Corinthians
7:8
1 Timothy
5:3; 5:4; 5:5; 5:9; 5:11; 5:16
James
1:27
Revelation
18:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5503 matches the Greek χήρα (chēra),
which occurs 56 times in 54 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 38:11–Eze 22:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s household until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22 - “Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24 - My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father’s household as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:9 - “Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:18 - He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14 - Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 - Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:19 - When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20 - When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:21 - When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12 - When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - Then say to the LORD your God: “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - The king asked her, “What is troubling you?” She said, “I am a widow; my husband is dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them but had no sexual relations with them. They were kept in confinement till the day of their death, living as widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14 - whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26 - Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - “Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - Then he cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 - And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:3 - They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 - The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:13 - The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16 - “If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5 - A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64 - their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6 - They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:9 - May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:9 - The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:25 - The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow’s boundary stones in place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:17 - Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.[fn] Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:23 - Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 - to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8 - “Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:21 - Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:28 - and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:11 - ‘Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 - We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:7 - In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

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