'Widows' in the Bible

and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.