Strong's #5503: chera (pronounced khay'-rah)

feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of 5490 through the idea of deficiency; a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively:--widow.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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chēra

1) a widow

2) metaphorically a city stripped of its inhabitants and riches is represented under the figure of a widow

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of G5490 through the idea of deficiency

Citing in TDNT: 9:440, 1313

Usage:

This word is used 27 times:

 

Matthew 23:14: "hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer:"
Mark 12:40: "Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these"
Mark 12:42: "there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make"
Mark 12:43: "That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast"
Luke 2:37: "And she was a widow of about fourscore and and four years, which"
Luke 4:25: "of a truth, many widows were in Israel in"
Luke 4:26: "a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow."
Luke 7:12: "and she was a widow: and much people of the"
Luke 18:3: "And there was a widow in that city; and she came"
Luke 18:5: "Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her,"
Luke 20:47: "Which devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers:"
Luke 21:2: "also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites."
Luke 21:3: "that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:"
Acts 6:1: "Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily"
Acts 9:39: "and all the widows stood by him weeping, and"
Acts 9:41: "when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive."
1 Corinthians 7:8: "to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if"
1 Timothy 5:3: "Honor widows that are widows indeed."
1 Timothy 5:3: "Honor widows that are widows indeed."
1 Timothy 5:4: "But if any widow have children or nephews,"
1 Timothy 5:5: "Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God,"
1 Timothy 5:9: "Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife"
1 Timothy 5:11: "But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ,"
1 Timothy 5:16: "or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not"
1 Timothy 5:16: "be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed."
James 1:27: "To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep"
Revelation 18:7: "and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow."