8 Bible Verses about Actual Widows
Most Relevant Verses
and had been a widow about eighty four years; who departed not from the temple; serving God with fastings and prayers night and day.
but Elias was sent to none of those widows, but to a widow-woman at Sarepta in the territory of Sidon.
and as He came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carrying out to be buried, his mother's only son, and she was a widow: and many of the people of the city were with her.
And I assure you, there were many widows in Israel, in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a great famine through all the land;
Then Peter arose, and went with them: and when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood round him weeping, and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made when she was with them.
And giving her his hand he raised her up, and calling the saints and widows he presented her alive.