'Widow' in the Bible

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

Now as He approached the gate of the city, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a sizeable crowd from the city was with her.

There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me legal protection from my opponent.’

yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’”

And He saw a poor widow putting in two small copper coins.

And He said, “Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all of them;