Words

אַלְמְנוּת H491

Home gloss

widowhood

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

widowhood

Note

"The garments of her widowhood" (38:14, 19). One root with אַלְמָנָה "widow"

Rulings

95

Declared to share English with

• H490 — one root: widow / widowhood (133a)

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 38

• 38:14 And she removed the garments of her widowhood from on her, and covered herself with the veil, and wrapped herself, and sat at the doorway of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shela was great, and she had not been given to him for a woman.
• 38:19 And she rose and went, and removed her veil from on her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.