8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows
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and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, but worshipped with fasting and prayer night and day.
but Elijah was sent to none of them except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
As he came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her.
But I tell you truly, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land;
So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing the tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.
And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive.