8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows

and then being a widow even for fourscore and four years. She departed not from the temple, but worshiped with the fasting and prayer, night and day.

"yet Elijah was not sent to any one of them, but only to a widow in Zarephath in Sidon.

Now when he drew near the gate of the city, behold, they were there carrying out one who was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.

There came also a poor widow who dropped in two little coins, worth a cent.

And he saw a certain poor widow casting in two mites

In very truth I tell you there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

So Peter arose and went with them. On his arrival they took him up-stairs, and all the widows stood near him, weeping, and showing him the cloaks and garments which Dorcas used to make, while she was still with them.

Then he gave her his hand and raised her up, and after calling the saints and the widows, he gave her back to them alive.