# χήρα (chēra)

Strong’s G5503. 25 New Testament occurrences.

a widow.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/chera-g5503

## Occurrences

- [Matthew 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/23/14) — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damn…
- [Mark 12:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/12/40) — Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
- [Mark 12:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/12/42) — And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
- [Mark 12:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/12/43) — And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into th…
- [Luke 2:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 throu…
- [Luke 4:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/4/26) — But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
- [Luke 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [Luke 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/18/3) — And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
- [Luke 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/18/5) — Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
- [Luke 20:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/20/47) — Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
- [Luke 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/21/2) — And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
- [Luke 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/21/3) — And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
- [Acts 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 negl…
- [Acts 9:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Corinthians 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/7/8) — I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
- [1 Timothy 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-timothy/5/3) — Honour widows that are widows indeed.
- [1 Timothy 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [1 Timothy 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-timothy/5/9) — Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
- [1 Timothy 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-timothy/5/11) — But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
- [1 Timothy 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-timothy/5/16) — If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
- [James 1:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 w…
- [Revelation 18:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, an…