'Widow' in the Bible

and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.

Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them—but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was also with her.

And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so she doesn’t wear me out by her persistent coming.’”

He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.

“I tell you the truth,” He said. “This poor widow has put in more than all of them.