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Koine Greek wordlink #164255

SR GNT Rev 18:7 χήρα (ⱪaʸra) ‘I am sitting queen and a widow not I am and’ Strongs=55030 Lemma=χēra
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=96 AD

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Other uses (8) 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

OET-LV: 42 And one poor widow having _come, throw two leptons, which is a_quadran. (MRK_12:42)

OET-RV: 42 Then an impoverished widow came and threw in two small copper coins. (MRK 12:42)

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

OET-LV: 43 And having _called _to the apprentices/followers of _him, he _said to _them: Truly, I _am _saying to _you _all that the this the poor widow, throw more than all of _the ones throwing into the treasury. (MRK_12:43)

OET-RV: 43 Yeshua called his followers and told them, “Honestly, that poor widow gave more than all the others. (MRK 12:43)

Luke 2:37 ‘and she was a widow until years eighty’ SR GNT Luke 2:37 word 4

OET-LV: 37 and she was a_widow until eighty four years, who not was _withdrawing from _the temple, with _fastings and petitions serving night and day. (LUK_2:37)

OET-RV: 37 and then had been widowed for eighty-four years. She was always at the temple, serving night and day in prayer and fasting. (LUK 2:37)

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

OET-LV: 12 And as he _neared to _the gate of _the city, and see an_only _begotten son to _the mother of _him was _being _carried _out having _died, and she was a_widow, and a_ sizeable _crowd of _the city was with her. (LUK_7:12)

OET-RV: 12 As he got near the town gate, look, a dead boy was being carried out to the cemetery. The mother was now a widow and he had been their only son, and a large number of the local residents were with her. (LUK 7:12)

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

OET-LV: 3 And a_widow was in the that city, and she _was _coming to him saying: Avenge me of the opponent of _me. (LUK_18:3)

OET-RV: 3 Now there was a widow in that city, and she kept going to him saying, ‘Get me justice against my rival.’ (LUK 18:3)

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

OET-LV: 3 And he _said: Truly I _am _saying to _you _all that the this the poor widow, throw more than all, (LUK_21:3)

OET-RV: 3 “I can assure you all,” he said, “that this poor widow threw more in than all the others, (LUK 21:3)

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

OET-LV: 4 But if any widow is _having children or grandchildren, let _them _be _learning to _be _devout first to _their own household, and to _be _giving _back recompense to _the parents, because/for this is acceptable before the god. (TI1_5:4)

OET-RV: 4 because if a widow has children or grandchildren, then they should be learning to show their godliness to their own relatives first, and to be repaying their parents and grandparents because this is what God expects. (TI1 5:4)

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

OET-LV: 5 And the woman really a_widow and having _been _isolated has _hoped in god, and is _remaining the in _petitions and the prayers, night and day. (TI1_5:5)

OET-RV: 5 A woman who is a real widow and has been left by herself but puts her hope in God, she is then able to spend her days and nights in prayer and requesting God’s response. (TI1 5:5)

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

Greek words (4) 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

OET-LV: 26 and Aʸlias was _sent to no _one of _them, except not/lest to Sarepta/(Tsₑrəfat) of _the Sidōn/(Tsīdōn)ian region, to the_ widow _woman. (LUK_4:26)

OET-RV: 26 But Eliyah wasn’t sent to any of them—rather he was sent to a foreign widow in Zarephath in the Tsidon region. (LUK 4:26)

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

OET-LV: 5 because _of this the widow which surely to _be _bringing _about trouble to _me, I _will _be _avenging her, in _order _that not coming to the_end she _may _be _harassing me. (LUK_18:5)

OET-RV: 5 this widow is making trouble for me. I’ll fight her case for her so she’ll stop harassing me.’ ” (LUK 18:5)

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

OET-LV: 2 And he _saw a_certain poor widow, throwing two leptons. there. (LUK_21:2)

OET-RV: 2 He also noticed a poor widow who threw in two small copper coins. (LUK 21:2)

1 TIM 5:9 Χήρα (Ⱪaʸra) N-NFS ‘a widow let_be_being enrolled not lessor than’ SR GNT 1 Tim 5:9 word 1

OET-LV: 9 ˓Let˒_ a_widow _be _being _enrolled having _become not lessor than sixty years, the_wife of _one husband, (TI1_5:9)

OET-RV: 9 The assembly should enrol a widow if she’s at least sixty years old and was the wife of a single husband. (TI1 5:9)

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