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Lexicon :: Strong's H490 - 'almānâ

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אַלְמָנָה
Transliteration
'almānâ
Pronunciation
al-maw-naw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From אַלְמָן (H488); a widow
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TWOT Reference: 105

Strong’s Definitions

אַלְמָנָה ʼalmânâh, al-maw-naw'; feminine of H488; a widow; also a desolate place:—desolate house (palace), widow.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x

The KJV translates Strong's H490 in the following manner: widow (53x), desolate house (1x), desolate palace (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x
The KJV translates Strong's H490 in the following manner: widow (53x), desolate house (1x), desolate palace (1x).

  1. widow

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַלְמָנָה ʼalmânâh, al-maw-naw'; feminine of H488; a widow; also a desolate place:—desolate house (palace), widow.
STRONGS H490: Abbreviations
† אַלְמָנָה 54 noun feminine widow (Mishna id., Assyrian almattu Dl in ZimBP 114) — א׳ Genesis 38:11 +; no construct; plural אַלְמָנוֺת Exodus 22:23 +; plural suffix אַלְמְנוֺתָיו Job 27:18, etc. — widow 1 Kings 17:20; אִשָּׁה אַ׳ 2 Samuel 14:5 (|| וַיָּ֫מָת אִישִׁי) 1 Kings 7:14; 1 Kings 11:26; 1 Kings 17:9, 10; Genesis 38:11 (J; living in father's house) compare Leviticus 22:13 (H; || גְּרוּשָׁה); Leviticus 21:14 (H), where widow forbidden as wife of high priest, like גְּרוּשָׁה, חֲלָלָה, זֹנָה compare Ezekiel 44:22 (3 times in verse) (id. of all priests, except widow of priest); Numbers 30:10 (P; of widow's vow, || גְּרוּשָׁה); נְשֵׁיכֶם אַלְמָנוֺת = ye shall be slain Exodus 22:23 (|| בְּנֵיכֶם יְתֹמִים) compare Psalm 109:9; Jeremiah 15:8; Jeremiah 18:21; Ezekiel 22:25, also Lamentations 5:3; (simile); of those snatched away by pestilence אַלְמְנוֺתָיו לֹא תִבְכֶּינָה Job 27:15; by sword, id., Psalm 78:64; Greek Version of the LXX We read אַלְמָנוֺת חַיּוֺת 2 Samuel 20:3 (see אַלְמָנוּת below) of imprisoned concubines; figurative of Jerusalem Lamentations 1:1; Babylon Isaiah 47:8; especially widow as helpless, exposed to oppression & harsh treatment (often || יָתוֺם, & גֵּר); Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 10:2; Job 22:9; Job 24:3; Job 31:16; Psalm 94:6; Malachi 3:5; harshness forbidden, & care for them enjoined Exodus 22:21 (E) Deuteronomy 14:29; Deuteronomy 16:11, 14; Deuteronomy 24:17, 19, 20, 21; Deuteronomy 26:12, 13; Deuteronomy 27:19; Isaiah 1:17; Jeremiah 7:6; Jeremiah 22:3; Zechariah 7:10, compare Job 29:13; under especially care of God Deuteronomy 10:18; Jeremiah 49:11; Proverbs 15:25; Psalm 68:6; Psalm 146:9; once of severity of judgment in not sparing widow Isaiah 9:16. (אַל׳ Isaiah 13:22 see below אַרְמוֺן; Ezekiel 19:7 see ib. & also below H4583 מעון.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

38:11; 38:11

Exodus

22:21; 22:23; 22:23

Leviticus

21:14; 22:13

Numbers

30:10

Deuteronomy

10:18; 14:29; 16:11; 16:14; 24:17; 24:19; 24:20; 24:21; 26:12; 26:13; 27:19

2 Samuel

14:5; 20:3

1 Kings

7:14; 11:26; 17:9; 17:10; 17:20

Job

22:9; 24:3; 27:15; 27:18; 29:13; 31:16

Psalms

68:6; 78:64; 94:6; 109:9; 146:9

Proverbs

15:25

Isaiah

1:17; 1:23; 9:16; 10:2; 13:22; 47:8

Jeremiah

7:6; 15:8; 18:21; 22:3; 49:11

Lamentations

1:1; 5:3

Ezekiel

19:7; 22:25; 44:22

Zechariah

7:10

Malachi

3:5

H490

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H490 matches the Hebrew אַלְמָנָה ('almānâ),
which occurs 56 times in 54 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 38:11–Eze 22:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - And Judas said to Thamar, his daughter-in-law, Sit thou a widow in the house of thy father-in-law, until Selom my son be grown; for he said, Lest he also die as his brethren; and Thamar departed, and sat in the house of her father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22 - (LXX 22:21) Ye shall hurt no widow or orphan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:24 - (LXX 22:23) And I will be very angry, and will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - But a widow, or one that is put away, or profaned, or a harlot, these he shall not take; but he shall take for a wife a virgin of his own people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - And if the daughter of a priest should be a widow, or put away, and have no seed, she shall return to her father's house, as in her youth: she shall eat of her father's bread, but no stranger shall eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:9 - (LXX 30:10) And the vow of a widow and of her that is put away, whatsoever she shall [fn]bind upon her soul, shall stand to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:18 - executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with thee, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou shalt do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatsoever place the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be called there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14 - And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in thy cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 - Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; thou shalt not take the widow's garment for a pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:19 - And when thou shalt have reaped corn in thy field, and shalt have forgotten a sheaf in thy field, thou shalt not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20 - And if thou shouldest gather thine olives, thou shalt not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:21 - And whensoever thou shalt gather the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean what thou hast left; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12 - And when thou shalt have completed all the tithings of thy fruits in the third year, thou shalt give the second tenth to the Levite, and stranger, and fatherless, and widow; and they shall eat it in thy cities, and be merry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - And thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have fully collected the holy things out of my house, and I have given them to the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, according to all the commands which thou didst command me: I did not transgress thy command, and I did not forget it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - And the king said to her, What is the matter with thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14 - (LXX 7:2) the son of a widow woman; and he was of the tribe of Nephthalim, and his father was a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in art and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought all the works.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26 - And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the Ephrathite of Sarira, the son of a widow, was servant of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:9 - Arise, and go to Sarepta of the Sidonian land: behold, I have there commanded a widow-woman to maintain thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - And he arose and went to Sarepta, and came to the gate of the city: and, behold, a widow-woman was there gathering sticks; and Eliu cried after her, and said to her, [fn]Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, [fn]that I may drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - And Eliu cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, thou hast wrought evil for her in slaying her son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 - But thou hast sent widows away empty, and hast afflicted orphans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:3 - They have led away the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:21 - For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 - And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:13 - Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yea, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16 - But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5 - (LXX 67:6) who is the father of the orphans, and judge of the widows: such is God in his holy place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:64 - (LXX 77:64) Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6 - (LXX 93:6) They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:9 - (LXX 108:9) Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:9 - (LXX 145:9) he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:25 - The Lord pulls down the houses of scorners; but he establishes the border of the widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:17 - learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:23 - Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - (LXX 9:16) Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 - perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:22 - and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. [fn]It will come soon, and will not tarry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8 - But now hear these words, thou luxurious one, who art the one that sits at ease, that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, even distress at noon-day: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:11 - (LXX 30:5) for thy fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - (LXX 1:0) [And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, that Jeremias sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said] (1:1) Aleph. How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! she is become as a widow: she that was magnified among the nations, and princess among the provinces, has become tributary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 - we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 - And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fulness of it, by the voice of his roaring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:7 - In thee they have reviled father and mother; and in thee they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

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