'Widow' in the Bible
She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her.
There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.'
yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.'"
They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.
He said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.