# יָתוֹם (yatom)

Israeli respelling: yatom. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3490. 42 Old Testament occurrences.

a bereaved person

King James renderings: fatherless (child), orphan.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yatom-h3490

## Occurrences

- [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.
- [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.
- [Job 6:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/27) — Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
- [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 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/9) — They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- [Job 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/12) — Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- [Job 31:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/17) — Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
- [Job 31:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/21) — If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
- [Psalms 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/14) — Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the…
- [Psalms 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/18) — To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
- [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 82:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/82/3) — Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
- [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 109:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/12) — Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
- [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 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/10) — Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- [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…
- [Jeremiah 5:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/28) — They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they…
- [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 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 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/3) — We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- [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…
- [Hosea 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/14/3) — Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee…
- [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…