2001 Translation

CHĒRA, chēra

Sounds Like: KHEE-rah

Translations: widow, a widow

From the root: ΧΗΡΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried. In ancient societies, widows often faced significant social and economic vulnerability, and they are frequently mentioned in biblical texts as a group deserving of special care and protection. It is a feminine noun.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5503 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 20:2

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 8:4

Codex Sinaiticus

• Leviticus — 22:13
• 4 Maccabees — 16:10
• Psalms — 108:9
• Sirach — 35:14
• Isaiah — 47:8, 49:21
• Lamentations — 0:1
• Mark — 12:42, 12:43
• Luke — 2:37, 7:12, 18:3, 21:3
• 1 Timothy — 5:4, 5:5, 5:9
• Revelation — 18:7
• Epistle of Barnabas — 20:2

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 16 — 7:221

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 38:11
• Leviticus — 22:13
• Deuteronomy — 10:18, 14:28, 16:11, 16:14, 24:19, 24:20, 24:21, 26:12, 26:13
• 2 Samuel — 14:5
• 1 Kings — 17:9, 17:10
• 4 Maccabees — 16:10
• Psalms — 108:9
• Isaiah — 1:17, 47:8, 49:21
• Lamentations — 1:1
• Baruch — 4:12
• Ezekiel — 44:22

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 5 — 3:7

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 12:42, 12:43
• Luke — 2:37, 7:12, 18:3, 21:3
• 1 Timothy — 5:4, 5:5, 5:9
• Revelation — 18:7

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΗΡΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΧΗΡΑΙ — widows
• ΧΗΡΑΙΣ — to widows, for widows
• ΧΗΡΑΝ — widow, a widow
• ΧΗΡΑΣ — of a widow, of the widow, a widow
• ΧΗΡΕ — O widow!, widow
• ΧΗΡΩΝ — (of) widows

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