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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 Box Gen 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Go back to your parents’ home and remain a widow until my son Shelah is old enough to marry you.” (But Judah didn’t really intend to do this because he was afraid Shelah would also die, like his two brothers.) So Tamar went back to live in her father’s home.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22 - “You must not exploit a widow or an orphan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - He may not marry a widow, a woman who is divorced, or a woman who has defiled herself by prostitution. She must be a virgin from his own clan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if she becomes a widow or is divorced and has no children to support her, and she returns to live in her father’s home as in her youth, she may eat her father’s food again. Otherwise, no one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:9 - If, however, a woman is a widow or is divorced, she must fulfill all her vows and pledges.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:18 - He ensures that orphans and widows receive justice. He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - Give it to the Levites, who will receive no allotment of land among you, as well as to the foreigners living among you, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, so they can eat and be satisfied. Then the LORD your God will bless you in all your work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - This is a time to celebrate before the LORD your God at the designated place of worship he will choose for his name to be honored. Celebrate with your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites from your towns, and the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14 - This festival will be a happy time of celebrating with your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows from your towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 - “True justice must be given to foreigners living among you and to orphans, and you must never accept a widow’s garment as security for her debt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:19 - “When you are harvesting your crops and forget to bring in a bundle of grain from your field, don’t go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigners, orphans, and widows. Then the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20 - When you beat the olives from your olive trees, don’t go over the boughs twice. Leave the remaining olives for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:21 - When you gather the grapes in your vineyard, don’t glean the vines after they are picked. Leave the remaining grapes for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12 - “Every third year you must offer a special tithe of your crops. In this year of the special tithe you must give your tithes to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows, so that they will have enough to eat in your towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - Then you must declare in the presence of the LORD your God, ‘I have taken the sacred gift from my house and have given it to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows, just as you commanded me. I have not violated or forgotten any of your commands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - ‘Cursed is anyone who denies justice to foreigners, orphans, or widows.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - “What’s the trouble?” the king asked.
“Alas, I am a widow!” she replied. “My husband is dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to look after the palace and placed them in seclusion. Their needs were provided for, but he no longer slept with them. So each of them lived like a widow until she died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14 - He was half Israelite, since his mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. Huram was extremely skillful and talented in any work in bronze, and he came to do all the metal work for King Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26 - Another rebel leader was Jeroboam son of Nebat, one of Solomon’s own officials. He came from the town of Zeredah in Ephraim, and his mother was Zeruah, a widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - “Go and live in the village of Zarephath, near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow there to feed you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the gates of the village, he saw a widow gathering sticks, and he asked her, “Would you please bring me a little water in a cup?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - Then Elijah cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, why have you brought tragedy to this widow who has opened her home to me, causing her son to die?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 - You must have sent widows away empty-handed
and crushed the hopes of orphans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:3 - They take the orphan’s donkey
and demand the widow’s ox as security for a loan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 - Those who survive will die of a plague,
and not even their widows will mourn them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:13 - I helped those without hope, and they blessed me.
And I caused the widows’ hearts to sing for joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16 - “Have I refused to help the poor,
or crushed the hopes of widows?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5 - Father to the fatherless, defender of widows—
this is God, whose dwelling is holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:64

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64 - Their priests were slaughtered,
and their widows could not mourn their deaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6 - They kill widows and foreigners
and murder orphans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 146:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:9 - The LORD protects the foreigners among us.
He cares for the orphans and widows,
but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:25 - The LORD tears down the house of the proud,
but he protects the property of widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:17 - Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Help the oppressed.
Defend the cause of orphans.
Fight for the rights of widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:23 - Your leaders are rebels,
the companions of thieves.
All of them love bribes
and demand payoffs,
but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans
or fight for the rights of widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - That is why the Lord takes no pleasure in the young men
and shows no mercy even to the widows and orphans.
For they are all wicked hypocrites,
and they all speak foolishness.
But even then the LORD’s anger will not be satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 - They deprive the poor of justice
and deny the rights of the needy among my people.
They prey on widows
and take advantage of orphans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8 - “Listen to this, you pleasure-loving kingdom,
living at ease and feeling secure.
You say, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other.
I will never be a widow or lose my children.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:21 - Then you will think to yourself,
‘Who has given me all these descendants?
For most of my children were killed,
and the rest were carried away into exile.
I was left here all alone.
Where did all these people come from?
Who bore these children?
Who raised them for me?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:28 - They are fat and sleek,
and there is no limit to their wicked deeds.
They refuse to provide justice to orphans
and deny the rights of the poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - only if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; only if you stop your murdering; and only if you stop harming yourselves by worshiping idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - There will be more widows
than the grains of sand on the seashore.
At noontime I will bring a destroyer
against the mothers of young men.
I will cause anguish and terror
to come upon them suddenly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - So let their children starve!
Let them die by the sword!
Let their wives become childless widows.
Let their old men die in a plague,
and let their young men be killed in battle!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - This is what the LORD says: Be fair-minded and just. Do what is right! Help those who have been robbed; rescue them from their oppressors. Quit your evil deeds! Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, and widows. Stop murdering the innocent!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:11 - But I will protect the orphans who remain among you.
Your widows, too, can depend on me for help.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - Jerusalem, once so full of people,
is now deserted.
She who was once great among the nations
now sits alone like a widow.
Once the queen of all the earth,
she is now a slave.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 - We are orphaned and fatherless.
Our mothers are widowed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:7 - Fathers and mothers are treated with contempt. Foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed among you.

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