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Strong's G3737 ὀρφανός (orphanos)

Orphanos means “comfortless” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3737 — karbela (“hat”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3737
Language Greek
Linked Usages 54
Books 20

Strong's G3737 Quick Answer

Strong's G3737 ὀρφανός (orphanos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. orphanos (or-fan-os') adj. 1. bereaved ("orphan"), i.e. parentless [of uncertain affinity] It has 54 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include comfortless and fatherless. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
orphanos (or-fan-os') adj. 1. bereaved ("orphan"), i.e. parentless [of uncertain affinity]
Usage
54 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
comfortless and fatherless

Meaning and Definition

orphanos (or-fan-os') adj. 1. bereaved ("orphan"), i.e. parentless [of uncertain affinity] KJV: comfortless, fatherless

Original Word
ὀρφανός
Transliteration
orphanos
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3737. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

orphan

Usage: ὀρφανός, -ή, -όν [in LXX for יָתוֹם ;] __1. prop., orphan, fatherless: Mrk.12:40, WH, mg, Jas.1:27. __2. In a general sense (as also in cl.; see LS, see word; and cf. MM, xviii), bereft, friendless, desolate: Jhn.14:18.† (AS)

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How Strong's G3737 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render orphanos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

comfortless John 14:18 fatherless James 1:27

How Strong's G3737 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 44 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3737 (ὀρφανός) appears 53 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3737 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3737 in the New Testament

2 indexed usages in New Testament.

John 14:18 KJV

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

James 1:27 KJV

Pure 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.

Strong's G3737 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

44 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 22:21 Septuagint / Brenton

Ye shall hurt no widow or orphan.

Exodus 22:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And I will be very angry, and will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.

Deuteronomy 10:18 Septuagint / Brenton

executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.

Strong's G3737 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 3:19 Septuagint / Brenton

it maketh the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:

Tobit 1:8 Septuagint / Brenton

and the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.

2 Maccabees 3:10 Septuagint / Brenton

Then the high priest told him that there was such money laid up for the relief of widows and fatherless children:

Usage Excerpts

First 54 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3737.

Exodus 22:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall hurt no widow or orphan.
Exodus 22:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will be very angry, and will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.
Deuteronomy 10:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 14:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Levite shall come, because he has no part or lot with thee, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which is in thy cities; and they shall eat and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works which thou shalt do.
Deuteronomy 16:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant and thy maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatsoever place the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be called there.
Deuteronomy 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in thy cities.
Deuteronomy 24:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; thou shalt not take the widow’s garment for a pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when thou shalt have reaped corn in thy field, and shalt have forgotten a sheaf in thy field, thou shalt not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou shouldest gather thine olives, thou shalt not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deuteronomy 24:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whensoever thou shalt gather the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean what thou hast left; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow:
Deuteronomy 26:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when thou shalt have completed all the tithings of thy fruits in the third year, thou shalt give the second tenth to the Levite, and stranger, and fatherless, and widow; and they shall eat it in thy cities, and be merry.
Deuteronomy 26:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have fully collected the holy things out of my house, and I have given them to the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, according to all the commands which thou didst command me: I did not transgress thy command, and I did not forget it.
Deuteronomy 27:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is everyone that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Job 6:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Even because ye attack the fatherless, And insult your friend.
Job 22:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But thou hast sent widows away empty, And hast afflicted orphans.
Job 24:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have led away the ass of the fatherless, And taken the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Job 24:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, And have afflicted the outcast.
Job 24:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let them be withered upon the earth; For they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
Job 29:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, And helped the fatherless who had no helper.
Job 31:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if too I ate my morsel alone, And did not impart of it to the orphan
Job 31:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If I lifted my hand against an orphan, Trusting that my strength was far superior to his:
Psalms 9:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou seest it; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, To deliver them into thy hands: The poor has been left to thee; Thou wast a helper to the orphan.
Psalms 9:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
To plead for the orphan and afflicted, That man may no more boast upon the earth.
Psalms 67:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who is the father of the orphans, and judge of the widows: Such is God in his holy place.
Psalms 81:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Judge the orphan and poor: Do justice to the low and needy.
Psalms 93:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have slain the widow and fatherless, And murdered the stranger.
Psalms 108:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let his children be orphans, And his wife a widow.
Psalms 108:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let him have no helper; Neither let there be anyone to have compassion on his fatherless children.
Psalms 145:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He will relieve the orphan and widow: But will utterly remove the way of sinners.
Proverbs 23:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remove not the ancient landmarks; And enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:
Isaiah 1:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.
Isaiah 1:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.
Isaiah 9:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.
Isaiah 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.
Jeremiah 5:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.
Jeremiah 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:
Jeremiah 22:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 30:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for thy fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in me.
Lamentations 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We are become orphans, we have no father, Our mothers are as widows.
Ezekiel 22:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In thee they have reviled father and mother; and in thee they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow.
Hosea 14:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Assyria shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in thee shall pity the orphan.
Micah 2:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.
Zechariah 7:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother.
Malachi 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling’s wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord Almighty.
John 14:18 New Testament, KJV
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
James 1:27 New Testament, KJV
Pure 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.
1 Esdras 3:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
it maketh the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:
Tobit 1:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.
2 Maccabees 3:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the high priest told him that there was such money laid up for the relief of widows and fatherless children:
2 Maccabees 8:28 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And after the Sabbath, when they had given part of the spoils to the maimed, and the widows, and orphans, the residue they divided among themselves and their servants.
2 Maccabees 8:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover of those that were with Timothy and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.
Wisdom of Sirach 4:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Be as a father unto the fatherless, And instead of a husband unto their mother: So shalt thou be as the son of the most High, And he shall love thee more than thy mother doth.
Wisdom of Sirach 35:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Whoso feareth the Lord will receive his discipline; And they that seek him early shall find favor.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:37 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any man in his distress.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3737, grouped by book.

Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3737 FAQ

What does orphanos (ὀρφανός) mean?

Orphanos (Strong's G3737) is a Greek word most simply glossed "comfortless". orphanos (or-fan-os') adj. 1. bereaved ("orphan"), i.e. parentless [of uncertain affinity]

How many times is orphanos (ὀρφανός) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 54 linked usages for Strong's G3737 across 20 books.

Where can I study orphanos (ὀρφανός) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3737 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate orphanos (ὀρφανός)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as comfortless and fatherless. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3737 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 44 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3737, with linked reader references where each row is available.