Occurrences
Yâthôwm occurs 42 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 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 — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child (וְיָת֖וֹם).
- Exodus 22:24 — And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless (יְתֹמִֽים).
- Deuteronomy 10:18 — He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless (יָת֖וֹם) and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
- Deuteronomy 14:29 — And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless (וְהַיָּת֤וֹם), 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 — 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 (וְהַיָּת֥וֹם), 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 — 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 (וְהַיָּת֥וֹם), and the widow, that are within thy gates.
- Deuteronomy 24:17 — Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless (יָת֑וֹם); nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
- Deuteronomy 24:19 — 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 (לַיָּת֥וֹם), and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
- Deuteronomy 24:20 — When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless (לַיָּת֥וֹם), and for the widow.
- Deuteronomy 24:21 — When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless (לַיָּת֥וֹם), and for the widow.
- Deuteronomy 26:12 — 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 (לַיָּת֣וֹם), and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
- Deuteronomy 26:13 — 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 (לַיָּת֣וֹם), 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 — Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless (יָת֖וֹם), and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- Job 6:27 — Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless (יָת֥וֹם), and ye dig a pit for your friend.
- Job 22:9 — Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless (יְתֹמִ֣ים) have been broken.
- Job 24:3 — They drive away the ass of the fatherless (יְתוֹמִ֣ים), they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Job 24:9 — They pluck the fatherless (יָת֑וֹם) from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- Job 29:12 — Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless (וְ֝יָת֗וֹם), and him that had none to help him.
- Job 31:17 — Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless (יָת֣וֹם) hath not eaten thereof;
- Job 31:21 — If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless (יָת֣וֹם), when I saw my help in the gate:
- Psalms 10:14 — Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless (יָ֝ת֗וֹם).
- Psalms 10:18 — To judge the fatherless (יָת֗וֹם) and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
- Psalms 68:5 — A father of the fatherless (יְ֭תוֹמִים), and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
- Psalms 82:3 — Defend the poor and fatherless (וְיָת֑וֹם): do justice to the afflicted and needy.
- Psalms 94:6 — They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless (וִֽיתוֹמִ֣ים).
- Psalms 109:9 — Let his children be fatherless (יְתוֹמִ֑ים), and his wife a widow.
- Psalms 109:12 — Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children (לִיתוֹמָֽיו).
- Psalms 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless (יָת֣וֹם) and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
- Proverbs 23:10 — Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless (יְ֝תוֹמִ֗ים):
- Isaiah 1:17 — Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless (יָת֔וֹם), plead for the widow.
- Isaiah 1:23 — Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless (יָתוֹם֙), neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
- Isaiah 9:17 — Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless (יְתֹמָ֤יו) 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 — 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 (יְתוֹמִ֖ים)!
- Jeremiah 5:28 — They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless (יָת֖וֹם), yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
- Jeremiah 7:6 — If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless (יָת֤וֹם), and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
- Jeremiah 22:3 — 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 (יָת֨וֹם), nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
- Jeremiah 49:11 — Leave thy fatherless children (יְתֹמֶ֖יךָ), I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
- Lamentations 5:3 — We are orphans (יְתוֹמִ֤ים) and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Ezekiel 22:7 — 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 (יָת֥וֹם) and the widow.
- Hosea 14:3 — Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless (יָתֽוֹם) findeth mercy.
- Zechariah 7:10 — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless (וְיָת֛וֹם), the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
- Malachi 3:5 — 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 (וְיָת֤וֹם), and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.