8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows

And then a widow, till she had reached the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple Courts, but, fasting and praying, worshiped God night and day.

And yet it was not to one of them that Elijah was sent, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidonia.

Just as he approached the gate of the town, there was a dead man being carried out for burial--an only son, and his mother was a widow. A large number of the people of the town were with her.

But one poor widow came and put in two farthings, which make a half-penny.

He saw, too, a widow in poor circumstances putting two farthings into them.

There were, doubtless, many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, and a severe famine prevailed throughout the country;

Peter returned with them at once. On his arrival, he was taken upstairs, and all the widows came round him in tears, showing the coats and other clothing which Dorcas had made while she was among them.

Giving her his hand, Peter raised her up, and, calling in the widows and others of Christ's People, presented her to them alive.