Concordance

“Widow” in the Bible

95 verses contain “widow” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible.

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Genesis 38:11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.”…
Genesis 38:14 she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that…
Genesis 38:19 Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
Exodus 22:22 You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
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.
Leviticus 21:14 He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
Leviticus 22:13 But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no…
Numbers 30:9 Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.
Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 14:29 …eritance 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 bless you in all the…
Deuteronomy 16:11 …ur gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among…
Deuteronomy 16:14 …e Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among…
Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Deuteronomy 24:19 …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…
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.
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.
Deuteronomy 25:5 …hers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the…
Deuteronomy 25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s…
Deuteronomy 25:9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not…
Deuteronomy 26:12 …ve it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your…
Deuteronomy 26:13 …en 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 forgotten Your…
Deuteronomy 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Ruth 4:5 …and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his…
Ruth 4:10 Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not…
1 Samuel 27:3 …is two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of…
1 Samuel 30:5 David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.
2 Samuel 2:2 So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
2 Samuel 3:3 his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;
2 Samuel 14:5 “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
2 Samuel 20:3 … They were confined until the day of their death, living as…
1 Kings 7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for…
1 Kings 11:26 Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,
1 Kings 17:9 “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
1 Kings 17:10 …to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I…
1 Kings 17:20 Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”
Job 22:9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Job 24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Job 24:21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
Job 27:15 His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
Job 29:13 The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
Job 31:16 If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
Job 31:18 though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
Psalms 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
Psalms 78:64 His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Psalms 94:6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
Psalms 109:9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Psalms 146:9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
Proverbs 15:25 The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
Isaiah 1:23 …rds. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before…
Isaiah 9:17 …eir 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 this, His…
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.
Isaiah 47:8 So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’
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,
Jeremiah 15:8 I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them…
Jeremiah 18:21 …f the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in…
Jeremiah 22:3 … wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this…
Jeremiah 49:11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
Lamentations 1:1 How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
Lamentations 5:3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
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.
Ezekiel 22:25 …, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within…
Ezekiel 44:22 And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest.
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.’
Malachi 3:5 …ers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the…
Matthew 22:24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
Mark 12:19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
Mark 12:21 Then the second one married the widow, but he also died and left no children. And the third did likewise.
Mark 12:40 They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
Mark 12:42 Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.
Mark 12:43 Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury.
Luke 2:37 and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
Luke 4:25 But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all…
Luke 4:26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.
Luke 7:12 As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
Luke 18:3 And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
Luke 18:5 yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”
Luke 20:28 …s a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for…
Luke 20:31 and the third married the widow, and in the same way all seven died, leaving no children.
Luke 20:47 They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
Luke 21:2 and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
Luke 21:3 “Truly I tell you,” He said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.
Acts 6:1 …hem began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of…
Acts 9:39 …m. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she…
Acts 9:41 Peter took her by the hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her to them alive.
1 Corinthians 7:8 Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.
1 Timothy 5:3 Honor the widows who are truly widows.
1 Timothy 5:4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of…
1 Timothy 5:5 The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
1 Timothy 5:9 A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, the wife of one man,
1 Timothy 5:11 But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,
1 Timothy 5:14 So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
1 Timothy 5:16 If any believing woman has dependent widows, she must assist them and not allow the church to be burdened, so that it can help the widows who are truly in need.
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.
Revelation 18:7 …d grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see…