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Strong's H490 אַלְמָנָה (almanah)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's G490 — antiocheia (“Antioch”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H490
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 54
Books 16

Strong's H490 Quick Answer

Strong's H490 אַלמָנָה (almanah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. almanah (al-maw-naw') n-f. 1. a widow 2. (also) a desolate place It has 54 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include widow, widows, widow's, and desolate. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
almanah (al-maw-naw') n-f. 1. a widow 2. (also) a desolate place
Usage
54 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
widow, widows, widow's, and desolate

Meaning and Definition

almanah (al-maw-naw') n-f. 1. a widow 2. (also) a desolate place [fem of H488] KJV: desolate house (palace), widow. Root(s): H488

Original Word
אַלמָנָה
Transliteration
almanah
Derivation
First root strongs: 488
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H490. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H490 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render almanah, 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.

widow Genesis 38:11 36× widows Exodus 22:24 12× widow's Deuteronomy 24:17 desolate Isaiah 13:22

How Strong's H490 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old 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 Old Testament with 54 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H490 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 H490 in the Old Testament

54 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 38:11 KJV

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

Exodus 22:22 KJV

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:24 KJV

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

Usage Excerpts

First 54 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H490.

Genesis 38:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
Exodus 22:22 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exodus 22:24 Old Testament, KJV
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Leviticus 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
Leviticus 22:13 Old Testament, KJV
But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall be no stranger eat thereof.
Numbers 30:9 Old Testament, KJV
But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
Deuteronomy 10:18 Old Testament, KJV
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 14:29 Old Testament, KJV
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Deuteronomy 16:11 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
Deuteronomy 16:14 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
Deuteronomy 24:17 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy 24:19 Old Testament, KJV
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20 Old Testament, KJV
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21 Old Testament, KJV
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 26:12 Old Testament, KJV
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
Deuteronomy 26:13 Old Testament, KJV
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
Deuteronomy 27:19 Old Testament, KJV
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
2 Samuel 14:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
1 Kings 7:14 Old Testament, KJV
He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
1 Kings 11:26 Old Testament, KJV
And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
1 Kings 17:9 Old Testament, KJV
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
1 Kings 17:10 Old Testament, KJV
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
1 Kings 17:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
Job 22:9 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:3 Old Testament, KJV
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job 24:21 Old Testament, KJV
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job 27:15 Old Testament, KJV
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Job 29:13 Old Testament, KJV
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job 31:16 Old Testament, KJV
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Psalms 68:5 Old Testament, KJV
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 78:64 Old Testament, KJV
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms 94:6 Old Testament, KJV
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Psalms 109:9 Old Testament, KJV
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms 146:9 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Proverbs 15:25 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:23 Old Testament, KJV
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isaiah 9:17 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:2 Old Testament, KJV
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isaiah 13:22 Old Testament, KJV
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Isaiah 47:8 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Jeremiah 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Jeremiah 15:8 Old Testament, KJV
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Jeremiah 18:21 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Jeremiah 22:3 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 49:11 Old Testament, KJV
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Lamentations 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Lamentations 5:3 Old Testament, KJV
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Ezekiel 19:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Ezekiel 22:7 Old Testament, KJV
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:25 Old Testament, KJV
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 44:22 Old Testament, KJV
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Zechariah 7:10 Old Testament, KJV
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Malachi 3:5 Old Testament, KJV
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H490, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 11 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 5 usages, Old Testament
Job 6 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 5 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 4 usages, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H490 FAQ

What does almanah (אַלְמָנָה) mean?

Almanah (Strong's H490) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "widow". almanah (al-maw-naw') n-f. 1. a widow 2. (also) a desolate place

How many times is almanah (אַלְמָנָה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 54 linked usages for Strong's H490 across 16 books.

Where can I study almanah (אַלְמָנָה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H490 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate almanah (אַלְמָנָה)?

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