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Koine Greek wordlink #39695

SR GNT Luke 2:37 χήρα (ⱪaʸra) ‘and she was a widow until years eighty’ Strongs=55030 Lemma=χēra
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular

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Other uses (9) of identical word form χήρα (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘χήρα’ (N-NFS) has 2 different glosses: ‘a widow’, ‘widow’.

Mark 12:42 ‘and having come one widow poor throw lepton_coins’ SR GNT Mark 12:42 word 7

Mark 12:43 ‘I am saying to you_all that widow this poor more than’ SR GNT Mark 12:43 word 14

Luke 7:12 ‘and she was a widow and a crowd of the’ SR GNT Luke 7:12 word 24

Luke 18:3 ‘a widow and was in’ SR GNT Luke 18:3 word 1

Luke 21:3 ‘I am saying to you_all that widow this poor more than’ SR GNT Luke 21:3 word 8

1Tim 5:4 ‘if but any widow children or grandchildren’ SR GNT 1Tim 5:4 word 4

1Tim 5:5 ‘the woman and really a widow and having_been isolated has hoped’ SR GNT 1Tim 5:5 word 4

1Tim 5:9 ‘a widow let_be_being enrolled not lessor than’ SR GNT 1Tim 5:9 word 1

Rev 18:7 ‘I am sitting queen and a widow not I am and’ SR GNT Rev 18:7 word 25

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘χēra’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a widow’, ‘widow’, ‘widows’.

Greek words (3) other than χήρα (N-NFS) with a gloss related to ‘widow’

LUKE 4:26 χήραν (ⱪaʸran) N-AFS ‘Sidōn/(Tsīdōn)ian region to the woman widow’ SR GNT Luke 4:26 word 16

LUKE 18:5 χήραν (ⱪaʸran) N-AFS ‘to_be bringing_about to me trouble widow this I will_be avenging her’ SR GNT Luke 18:5 word 10

LUKE 21:2 χήραν (ⱪaʸran) N-AFS ‘he saw and a certain widow poor throwing there’ SR GNT Luke 21:2 word 6

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular NFS=nominative,feminine,singular