μονόω
monóō · G3443 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be without a family, to be without relatives
To be left without a family
Examples1 Timothy 5:5 Now she who is actually a widow and has been left alone has set her hope on God, and she continues in requests and prayers night and day.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐρημόω erēmóō · G2049 · to be destroyed, to suffer destruction, to suffer desolation
- Greek verb meaning to make desolate or leave bereft; overlaps semantically with μονόω in the sense of being left alone/bereaved, though ἐρημόω carries stronger connotations of devastation and desolation.
In the other Testament 2 words
- שָׁכֹל shâkôl · H7921 · bereaved of children
- Standard Hebrew verb for bereavement/being left childless; precise translation equivalent for the sense of μονόω as 'bereave' in 1 Tim 5:5.
- יָחִיד yâchîyd · H3173 · only one, precious one, favorite
- Hebrew adjective describing one left alone or solitary, corresponding to the isolation/solitary state implied by μονόω.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be without a family, to be without relatives10.13
- This sense denotes a state of being left alone, without family support. 1 Timothy 5:5 describes a widow who is “left alone” as one who has fixed her hope on God.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μόνῳ; (μόνος); from Homer down; to make single or solitary; to leave alone, forsake:…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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