# אַלְמָנָה (almanah) Israeli respelling: al-ma-nah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H490. 54 Old Testament occurrences. a widow; also a desolate place King James renderings: desolate house (palace), widow. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/almanah-h490 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 38:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/11) — Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradven… - [Exodus 22:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/22) — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. - [Exodus 22:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/24) — And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. - [Leviticus 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/21/14) — A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. - [Leviticus 22:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/22/13) — But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shal… - [Numbers 30:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/30/9) — But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her. - [Deuteronomy 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/18) — He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. - [Deuteronomy 14:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/29) — And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within… - [Deuteronomy 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/11) — And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levit… - [Deuteronomy 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/14) — And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stra… - [Deuteronomy 24:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/17) — Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge: - [Deuteronomy 24:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/19) — When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be f… - [Deuteronomy 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/20) — When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the… - [Deuteronomy 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/21) — When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and fo… - [Deuteronomy 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/12) — When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto… - [Deuteronomy 26:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/13) — Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the L… - [Deuteronomy 27:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/27/19) — Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. - [2 Samuel 14:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/5) — And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead. - [1 Kings 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/14) — He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and unde… - [1 Kings 11:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/26) — And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up… - [1 Kings 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/9) — Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. - [1 Kings 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/10) — So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he… - [1 Kings 17:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/20) — And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? - [Job 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/9) — Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. - [Job 24:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/3) — They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. - [Job 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/21) — He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. - [Job 27:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/27/15) — Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. - [Job 29:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/13) — The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. - [Job 31:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/16) — If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; - [Psalms 68:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/5) — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. - [Psalms 78:64](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/64) — Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. - [Psalms 94:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/6) — They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. - [Psalms 109:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/9) — Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. - [Psalms 146:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/146/9) — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. - [Proverbs 15:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/25) — The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. - [Isaiah 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/17) — Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. - [Isaiah 1:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/23) — Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless,… - [Isaiah 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/17) — Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypoc… - [Isaiah 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/2) — To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they… - [Isaiah 13:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/22) — And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come,… - [Isaiah 47:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/47/8) — Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside… - [Jeremiah 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/6) — If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to… - [Jeremiah 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/8) — Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noon… - [Jeremiah 18:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/21) — Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of t… - [Jeremiah 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/3) — Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do n… - [Jeremiah 49:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/11) — Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me. - [Lamentations 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/1) — How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess a… - [Lamentations 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/3) — We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. - [Ezekiel 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/7) — And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his… - [Ezekiel 22:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/7) — In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they v… - [Ezekiel 22:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/25) — There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have take… - [Ezekiel 44:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/44/22) — Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel,… - [Zechariah 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/10) — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your hea… - [Malachi 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/5) — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false…