Topic
Orphan
51 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Lamentations 5:3ISBE · Nave INSTANCES OF — A figure of Zion in affliction
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- James 1:27ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
- Genesis 11:27Nave INSTANCES OF — Lot
¶ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
- Genesis 11:28Nave INSTANCES OF — Lot
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
- Exodus 22:22–24Nave General scriptures concerning
¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your…
- Numbers 27:1–5Nave INSTANCES OF — Daughters of Zelophehad
Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.…
- Deuteronomy 10:18Nave General scriptures concerning
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
- Deuteronomy 14:28Nave General scriptures concerning
¶ At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
- Deuteronomy 14:29Nave General scriptures concerning
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, 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…
- Deuteronomy 16:11Nave General scriptures concerning
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, and the widow, that are among you, in the place…
- Deuteronomy 16:14Nave General scriptures concerning
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, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
- Deuteronomy 24:17–22Nave General scriptures concerning
¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge: But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this…
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- Deuteronomy 26:12 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Deuteronomy 26:13 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Deuteronomy 27:19 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Judges 9:16–21 Nave INSTANCES OF — Jotham
- 2 Samuel 9:3 Nave INSTANCES OF — Mephibosheth
- 2 Kings 11:1–12 Nave INSTANCES OF — Joash
- Esther 2:7 Nave INSTANCES OF — Esther
- Job 6:27 Nave General scriptures concerning
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- Job 29:12 Nave General scriptures concerning
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- Job 31:16–18 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Job 31:21 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Psalms 10:14 Nave General scriptures concerning
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- Psalms 68:5 Nave General scriptures concerning
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- Psalms 146:9 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Proverbs 23:10 Nave General scriptures concerning
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- Jeremiah 5:28 Nave General scriptures concerning
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- Hosea 14:3 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Malachi 3:5 Nave General scriptures concerning
- Tobit 1:8 ISBE
- 2 Maccabees 8:28 ISBE
- 2 Esdras 2:20 ISBE
- John 14:18 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
or'-fan: This word occurs once only in the Old Testament (La 5:3, where it stands for yathom, elsewhere rendered "fatherless," and in the Septuagint always orphanos); in the Apocrypha it occurs 3 times (2 Esdras 2:20; Tobit 1:8; 2 Macc 8:28). There is no clear case where it means the loss of both parents. The Scriptures devote considerable attention to the widow and orphan, and the idea is that the child is fatherless. It is not found in the King James Version of the New Testament; but the Greek word orphanos occurs twice, Joh 14:18 (the King James Version "comfortless," the Revised Version (British and American) "desolate," margin "orphans") and Jas 1:27 ("fatherless").
See FATHERLESS.
D. Miall Edwards
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 47 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → General scriptures concerning Ex 22:22-24; De 10:18; 14:28,29; 16:11,14; 24:17-22; 26:12,13; 27:19; Job 6:27; 22:9; 24:3,9; 29:12,13; 31:16-18,21; Ps 10:14,17,18; 27:10; 68:5; 82:3; 94:6; 146:9; Pr 23:10; Isa 1:17,23; 10:1,2; Jer 5:28; 7:6,7; 22:3; 49:11; Ho 14:3; Mal 3:5; Jas 1:27
- → See ADOPTION
- → See CHILDREN
- → See WIDOW
- → INSTANCES OF
- Lot Ge 11:27,28
- Daughters of Zelophehad Nu 27:1-5
- Jotham Jud 9:16-21
- Mephibosheth 2Sa 9:3
- Joash 2Ki 11:1-12
- Esther Es 2:7
- A figure of Zion in affliction La 5:3
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.