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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
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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 27 times in 25 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:40

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:40 - They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:42 - But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:43 - Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 2:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:37 - and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.[fn] She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:25 - I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:26 - Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:12 - As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:3 - And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:5 - yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:47 - They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:2 - He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:3 - “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:1 - In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews[fn] among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:39 - Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:41 - He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for the believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 7:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:8 - Now to the unmarried[fn] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:3 - Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:4 - But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:5 - The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:9 - No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:11 - As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:16 - If any woman who is a believer has widows in her care, she should continue to help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:27 - Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:7 - Give her as much torment and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. In her heart she boasts, ‘I sit enthroned as queen. I am not a widow;[fn] I will never mourn.’
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