“Orphan” in the Bible

44 verses contain “orphan” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible.

1. Exodus 22:22 You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
2. Exodus 22:24 My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
3. Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
4. Deuteronomy 14:29 …as no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will…
5. Deuteronomy 16:11 …the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among…
6. Deuteronomy 16:14 …maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among…
7. Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
8. Deuteronomy 24:19 … go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your…
9. Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
10. Deuteronomy 24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
11. Deuteronomy 26:12 …tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your…
12. Deuteronomy 26:13 …portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or…
13. Deuteronomy 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
14. Job 6:27 You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
15. Job 22:9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
16. Job 24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
17. Job 24:9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
18. Job 29:12 because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
19. Job 31:17 if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
20. Job 31:21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
21. Psalms 10:14 But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
22. Psalms 10:18 to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
23. Psalms 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
24. Psalms 82:3 Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
25. Psalms 94:6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
26. Psalms 109:9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
27. Psalms 109:12 May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
28. Psalms 146:9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
29. Proverbs 23:10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
30. Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
31. Isaiah 1:23 …ve bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before…
32. Isaiah 9:17 … pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all…
33. Isaiah 10:2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
34. Jeremiah 5:28 …eeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the…
35. Jeremiah 7:6 if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
36. Jeremiah 22:3 …is oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this…
37. Jeremiah 49:11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
38. Lamentations 5:3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
39. Ezekiel 22:7 Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
40. Hosea 14:3 Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
41. Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
42. Malachi 3:5 …terers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do…
43. John 14:18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
44. James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.