Orphanós — G3737

Definition

adjective

bereaved ("orphan"), i.e. parentless

1. bereft (of a father, of parents)
2. of those bereft of a teacher, guide, guardian

Usually translated as

comfortless, fatherless

Origin

of uncertain affinity

Occurrences

Orphanós occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: John (1), James (1)

• John 14:18 — I will not leave you comfortless (ὀρφανούς): I will come to you.
• James 1:27 — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless (ὀρφανούς) and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.