Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
That are widows indeed (tav ontwv xhrav). For ontwv (actually, really), see Luke 23:47; I Corinthians 14:25; and verse I Timothy 5:5. For widows (xhra) see Mark 12:40, Mark 12:42; Acts 6:1; I Corinthians 7:8. Parry notes that in verses I Timothy 5:3-8 Paul discusses widows who are in distress and I Timothy 5:9-16 those who are in the employment of the local church for certain work. Evidently, as in Acts Acts 6:1-6, so here in Ephesus there had arisen some trouble over the widows in the church. Both for individual cases of need and as a class Timothy is to show proper respect (tima, keep on honouring) the widows.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Timothy 5:3:
1 Timothy 5:3
1 Timothy 5:9
1 Timothy 5:16
1 Timothy 6:19
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