8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows

though she was now a widow, of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, attending the divine service, with fastings and prayers night and day:

And unto none of them was Elias sent, but unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, to a widow woman.

And as he drew near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carrying out, an only son to his mother, and she a widow; and a great concourse of the city was with her.

And one poor widow coming, cast in two mites, which is a farthing.

And he observed also a certain widow, miserably poor, put in there two mites.

Now I tell you of a certainty, that there were many widows in the days of Elias, in Israel, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, so that a grievous famine was upon all the land.

Then Peter arose and went with them. And they carried him, on his arrival, into the upper room: and all the widows stood round him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made, whilst she was with them.

Then he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling in the saints and the widows, presented her to them alive.