yatom · fatherless

What it means

yatom (יָתוֹם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fatherless”.

Orphan; above all one who has lost his father.

How to say it

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

1. A child whose dad has died; YHWH defends him.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• orphan ×28
• orphans ×9
• fatherless ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×11
• Job×7
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×4
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 22:22

  You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

• Exodus 22:24

  and my anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will become widows and your sons orphans.

• Deuteronomy 10:18

  He does justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him bread and a cloak.

• Deuteronomy 14:29

  And the Levite shall come, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are within your gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied, so that YHWH your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.

• Deuteronomy 16:11

  And you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are among you, in the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 16:14

  And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite, the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 24:17

  You shall not pervert the justice due the resident alien or the orphan, and you shall not take in pledge the garment of a widow.

• Deuteronomy 24:19

  When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to take it; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that YHWH your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hands.

• Deuteronomy 24:20

  When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the branches after you; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 24:21

  When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean after you; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 26:12

  When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, and have given it to the Levite, to the resident alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied,

• Deuteronomy 26:13

  then you shall say before YHWH your Elohim, “I have removed the holy portion from the house, and I have also given it to the Levite and to the resident alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all your commandment that you commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten.

• Deuteronomy 27:19

  ‘Cursed be he who perverts the justice due the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Job 6:27

  You would even cast lots over the orphan and bargain over your companion.

• Job 22:9

  Widows you sent away empty, and the arms of the orphans were crushed.

• Job 24:3

  The donkey of the orphans they drive away; they take in pledge the ox of the widow.

• Job 24:9

  They seize the orphan from the breast, and against the poor they take pledges.

• Job 29:12

  because I rescued the poor crying for help, and the orphan, and the one who had no helper.

• Job 31:17

  or ate my morsel alone, and the orphan did not eat from it

• Job 31:21

  if I raised my hand against the orphan, because I saw my help in the gate,

• Psalms 10:14

  You have seen it, for you look at suffering and grief to put it in your hand; to you the helpless abandons himself; you have been the helper of the orphan.

• Psalms 10:18

  to do justice to the orphan and the oppressed, so that the mortal of the earth may no longer strike terror.

• Psalms 68:5

  Father of orphans and judge of widows is Elohim in his holy dwelling.

• Psalms 82:3

  Judge the poor and the orphan; do justice to the afflicted and the destitute.

• Psalms 94:6

  The widow and the resident alien they kill, and the orphans they murder.

• Psalms 109:9

  Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

• Psalms 109:12

  Let there be no one to extend loyal love to him, nor let there be anyone to show favor to his fatherless children.

• Psalms 146:9

  YHWH keeps the resident aliens; the orphan and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he makes crooked.

• Proverbs 23:10

  Do not move the ancient boundary, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless;

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do good; seek justice; set right the oppressor; judge the case of the orphan; plead the cause of the widow.

• Isaiah 1:23

  Your princes are stubborn and companions of thieves; every one of them loves a bribe and chases after rewards. The orphan they do not judge the case of, and the cause of the widow does not come before them.

• Isaiah 9:17

  Therefore Adonai does not rejoice over its young men, and on its orphans and its widows he has no compassion; for every one of them is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks infamy. For all this his anger has not turned back, and his hand is still stretched out.

• Isaiah 10:2

  to turn aside the poor from judgment, and to rob the afflicted of my people of justice, so that widows become their spoil, and that they may plunder the orphans!

• Jeremiah 5:28

  They have grown fat, they are sleek; they also go beyond the deeds of evil; the cause they do not plead, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the justice of the needy they do not defend.

• Jeremiah 7:6

  if you do not oppress the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and do not walk after other gods to your own harm,

• Jeremiah 22:3

  Thus says YHWH: Do justice and righteousness, and rescue the one who is robbed from the hand of the oppressor; and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow do not wrong, do not treat with violence; and innocent blood do not shed in this place.

• Jeremiah 49:11

  Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

• Lamentations 5:3

  Orphans we have become, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

• Ezekiel 22:7

  Father and mother they have despised in you; toward the resident alien they have acted with exploitation in your midst; the orphan and the widow they have oppressed in you.

• Hosea 14:3

  Assyria will not save us; on horses we will not ride; and we will no longer say, ‘Our god,’ to the work of our hands; for in you the orphan finds compassion.”

And 2 more times.