8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows

and then being a widow of eighty-four years. She was never absent from the Temple, but worshipped, by day and by night, with fasting and prayer.

and yet to not one of them was Elijah sent: he was only sent to a widow at Zarephath in the Sidonian country.

And just as He reached the gate of the town, they happened to be bringing out for burial a dead man who was his mother's only son; and she was a widow; and a great number of the townspeople were with her.

But there came one poor widow and dropped in two farthings, equal in value to a halfpenny.

He also saw a poor widow dropping in two farthings,

But I tell you in truth that there was many a widow in Israel in the time of Elijah, when there was no rain for three years and six months and there came a severe famine over all the land;

So Peter rose and went with them. On his arrival they took him upstairs, and the widow women all came and stood by his side, weeping and showing him the underclothing and cloaks and garments of all kinds which Dorcas used to make while she was still with them.

Then, giving her his hand, he raised her to her feet and, calling to him God's people and the widows, he gave her back to them alive.