Topical Bible Verses
James 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Psalm 10:18
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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Exodus 22:22-24
You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
(
Lamentations 5:3), i.e., desolate and without protectors. The word occurs only here. In
John 14:18 the word there rendered "comfortless" (R.V., "desolate;" marg., "orphans") properly means "orphans." The same Greek word is rendered "fatherless" in
James 1:27.
Greek
3737. orphanos -- an orphan ... fatherless, desolate. Word Origin a prim. word Definition an orphan NASB
Word Usage
orphans (2). orphaned, fatherless. Of uncertain
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2475. chaloph -- a passing away, vanishing... destruction. From chalaph; properly, surviving; by implication (collectively)
orphans --
X destruction. see HEBREW chalaph. 2474, 2475. chaloph. 2476 .
... /hebrew/2475.htm - 6k 3490. yathom -- an orphan
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition an orphan NASB Word Usage fatherless
(7), fatherless children (1), orphan (26), orphans (8). ...
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Library
Care of Widows and Orphans.
... PHILANTHROPIC SUBJECTS. 782. " Care of Widows and Orphans. 782. LM Ch.
Psalmody. Care of Widows and Orphans. 1 Thou God of hope ...
/.../adams/hymns for christian devotion/782 care of widows.htm
That the Widow and Orphans Ought to be Protected.
... Third Book. 113. That the widow and orphans ought to be protected. In Solomon:
"Be merciful to the orphans as a father, and as a ...
/.../cyprian/three books of testimonies against the jews/113 that the widow and.htm
On Helping the Poor.
... Book IV. Sec. I."On Helping the Poor. Those Who Have No Children Should
Adopt Orphans, and Treat Them as Their Own Children. I ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec i on helping the poor.htm
Appendix C
... proved the acceptable will of the Lord, when exercised in heart about the enlargement
of the Orphan work, so that not only 300 but 1000 Orphans might be ...
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Orphanages.
... CHAPTER XIII. ORPHANAGES. All over India missions have had orphans under their charge,
but from personal knowledge I can only speak of the North-West. ...
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Chapter Iii Precious Answers to Prayer
... CONVERSION OF THE ORPHANS. ... We have, also, had repeated seasons in which, within a
short time, or even all at once, many of the Orphans were converted. ...
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How Antipater is Hated of all Men; and How the King Espouses the ...
... his money every day more and more profusely, on observing that, contrary to his
expectations, the king was taking care about the orphans, and discovering at ...
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John xiv. 15-17
... For they still sought Him and His society. To cure then this feeling, He saith,.
Ver.18. "I will not leave you orphans, I will come unto you.". ...
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Introduction
... In work among the young her father was an enthusiast. With a heart bigger than her
own family circle, her mother took in two orphans to foster and rear. ...
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On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
... On January 10, 1740, he arrived at Savannah. 13. January 29, he added three desolate
orphans to near twenty which he had in his house before. ...
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Thesaurus
Orphans (12 Occurrences)... In John 14:18 the word there rendered "comfortless" (RV, "desolate;" marg., "
orphans")
properly means "
orphans." The same Greek word is rendered "fatherless
.../o/orphans.htm - 9kOrphan (25 Occurrences)
... orphanos occurs twice, John 14:18 (the King James Version "comfortless," the Revised
Version (British and American) "desolate," margin "orphans") and James 1 ...
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Comfortless (1 Occurrence)
... kum'-fert-les (orphanous, "orphans"): The Greek original is found but twice in the
New Testament; rendered "comfortless" in John 14:18, the Revised Version ...
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Orphan's (1 Occurrence)
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Onias
... Onias remonstrated in vain, pleading for the "deposits of widows and orphans."
Heliodorus persisted in the object of his mission. ...
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Poverty (25 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 5:8); excessive interest, usury (Nehemiah 5:1-5); persecution because of
the faith (2 Corinthians 6; 2 Corinthians 8). Widows and orphans by reason of ...
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Pitieth (7 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 9:17 Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans,
and its widows He pitieth not, For every one 'is' profane, and an evil doer ...
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Pentecost (3 Occurrences)
... offerings were to be made to the Lord (Deuteronomy 16:10), and it was to be marked
by a liberal spirit toward the Levite, the stranger, and orphans and widows ...
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Heliodorus
... The Temple seems to have served the purposes of a bank in which the private deposits
of widows and orphans were kept for greater security, and in 2 Maccabees 3 ...
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Rejoiceth (39 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 9:17 Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans,
and its widows He pitieth not, For every one 'is' profane, and an evil doer ...
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