אַלְמָנוּת
almanut · widowhood
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H491 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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almanut (אַלְמָנוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “widowhood”.
The state of being a widow.
How to say it
al·ma·nut
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The state of a woman who lost her husband; her mourning dress.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- widowhood ×2
- widow’s garments ×2
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 38:14
She removed her widow’s garments from her, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
- Genesis 38:19
She arose and went away and removed her veil from her and put on her widow’s garments.
- 2 Samuel 20:3
David came to his house in Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, the concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house under guard; he provided for them, but to them he did not go in. So they were shut up until the day of their death, in widowhood for life.
- Isaiah 54:4
Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; and do not be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; for the shame of your youth you will forget, and the reproach of your widowhood you will not remember anymore.