χήρα chēra

Greek word for “widow” · Strong’s G5503 · used 26 times in 24 verses

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Meaning

χήρα, -ας, ἡ; a widow: (Rec., R, mg.), 4:25 7:12 18:3, 5 20:47 21:2-3, 9:39, 41, 5:11 5:16;

How it is translated

Glosses given for chēra in context, with how often each is used:

• widow 13
• widows 12
• dependent widows 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Timothy 5 (6), Mark 12 (3), Luke 4 (2), Luke 18 (2), Luke 21 (2), Acts 9 (2), Luke 2 (1), Luke 7 (1), Luke 20 (1), Acts 6 (1)

Forms

• χήρα 10
• χήρας 6
• χῆραι 3
• χήραν 3
• χηρῶν 2
• χήραις 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chēra more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ὄντως ontōs “really” 3
• βάλλω ballō “to throw” 4
• πτωχός ptōchos “poor” 3
• λεπτός leptos “coin” 2
• ἔτος etos “year” 3
• μακρός makros “long/distant” 2
• πρόφασις prophasis “pretense” 2
• ἐκδικέω ekdikeō “to avenge” 2
• περισσότερος perissoteros “more excessive” 2
• κατεσθίω katesthiō “to devour” 2
• δέησις deēsis “petition” 2
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 4

Key verses

The verses using chēra that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 2:37 — And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
• Luke 4:25 — But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was…
• Luke 7:12 — Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of…
• Luke 20:47 — Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
• Acts 6:1 — And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were…
• Acts 9:39 — Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats…
• Acts 9:41 — And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
• 1 Timothy 5:3 — Honour widows that are widows indeed.
• 1 Timothy 5:4 — But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
• 1 Timothy 5:5 — Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
• James 1:27 — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the…
• Revelation 18:7 — How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.