יָתוֹם
ya.tom
“orphan”
Definition
a bereaved person
from an unused root meaning to be lonely;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
יָתוֹם appears 37 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
to deprive the poor of fair treatmentand withhold justice from the oppressed of My people,to make widows their preyand orphans their plunder.
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Do not move an ancient boundary stoneor encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.