ὀρφανός
orphanós · G3737 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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orphan
An offspring whose parents either are no longer alive or no longer function as parents (as the result of having abandoned their offspring)
ExamplesJames 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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friendless person, helpless
(A figurative extension of meaning of ὀρφανός ‘orphan,’) One who is without associates who may be of sustaining help
ExamplesJohn 14:18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπισκέπτομαιto visit, to look after 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- יָתוֹם yâthôwm · H3490 · fatherless
- יָתוֹם (yâthôwm, H3490) יָתוֹם is the standard Hebrew term for a fatherless child/orphan that ὀρφανός (orphanós, G3737) ὀρφανός directly translates in LXX contexts, representing the same core concept of parental bereavement across both languages.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Orphan10.40
- This domain covers ὀρφανός in its literal sense of a child bereft of parents, as Jesus promises the disciples He will not abandon them at His departure: “‘I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.’” (John 14:18)
- Friendless person, helpless34.21
- Here ὀρφανός names the vulnerable and helpless as a class deserving practical compassion, as James defines pure religion: “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.” (James 1:27)
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀρφανη, ὀρφανόν (ὈΡΦΟΣ, Latinorbus; (Curtius, § 404)), from Homer, Odyssey 20, 68 down,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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