1 | Strong's Number: g5503 | Greek: chera |
Widow:
Mat 28:13 (in some texts); Mar 12:40, 42, 43; Luk 2:37; 4:25, 26, lit., "a woman a widow;" Luk 7:12; 18:3, 5; 20:47; 21:2, 3; Act 6:1; 9:39, 41; 1Ti 5:3 (twice), 1Ti 5:4, 5, 11, 16 (twice); Jam 1:27; 1Ti 5:9 refers to elderly "widows" (not an ecclesiastical "order"), recognized, for relief or maintenance by the church (cp. 1Ti 5:3, 16), as those who had fulfilled the conditions mentioned; where relief could be ministered by those who had relatives that were "widows" (a likely circumstance in large families), the church was not to be responsible; there is an intimation of the tendency to shelve individual responsibility at the expense of church funds. In Rev 18:7, it is used figuratively of a city forsaken.
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