Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Orphan’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Orphan’ occurs 42 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 22:22 You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.Exodus 22:22
Exodus 22:24 And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.Exodus 22:24
Number of the word / term Orphan in Exodus: 2
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 10:18 He accomplishes judgment for the orphan and the widow. He loves the sojourner, and he gives him food as well as clothing.Deuteronomy 10:18
Deuteronomy 14:29 And the Levite, who has no other portion or possession with you, and the sojourner as well as the orphan and the widow who are within your gates, shall approach and eat and be satisfied, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands which you shall do.”Deuteronomy 14:29
Deuteronomy 16:11 And you shall feast in the sight of the Lord your God: you, your son and your daughter, your man servant and your woman servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the new arrival as well as the orphan and the widow, who abide with you, in the place which the Lord your God will choose, so that his name may dwell there.Deuteronomy 16:11
Deuteronomy 16:14 And you shall feast at the time of your festival: you, your son and daughter, your man servant and woman servant, likewise the Levite and the new arrival, the orphan and the widow, who are within your gates.Deuteronomy 16:14
Deuteronomy 24:17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the new arrival or the orphan, nor shall you take away the widow’s garment as collateral.Deuteronomy 24:17
Deuteronomy 24:19 When you have reaped the grain in your field, and, having forgotten, you leave behind a sheaf, you shall not return to take it away. Instead, you shall permit the new arrival, and the orphan, and the widow to take it away, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.Deuteronomy 24:19
Deuteronomy 24:20 If you have gathered the fruit of your olive trees, you shall not return in order to gather whatever may remain on the trees. Instead, you shall leave it behind for the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow.Deuteronomy 24:20
Deuteronomy 24:21 If you harvest the vintage of your vineyard, you shall not gather the remaining clusters. Instead, they shall fall to the use of the stranger, the orphan, and the widow.Deuteronomy 24:21
Deuteronomy 26:12 When you will have completed the tithing of all your crops, in the third year of tithes, you shall give it to the Levite, and to the new arrival, and to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied.Deuteronomy 26:12
Deuteronomy 26:13 And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: ‘I have taken what was sanctified from my house, and I have given it to the Levite, and to the new arrival, and to the orphan and the widow, just as you have commanded me. I have not transgressed your commandments, nor have I forgotten your precepts.Deuteronomy 26:13
Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed be he who subverts the judgment of the new arrival, the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.Deuteronomy 27:19
Number of the word / term Orphan in Deuteronomy: 11
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Job
Job 6:27 You encroach upon the orphan, and you strive to undermine your friend.Job 6:27
Job 22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.Job 22:9
Job 24:3 They have driven away the donkey of orphans, and have taken the cow from the widow as collateral.Job 24:3
Job 24:9 They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.Job 24:9
Job 29:12 This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.Job 29:12
Job 31:17 if I have eaten my morsel of food alone, while orphans have not eaten from it;Job 31:17
Job 31:21 if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I the advantage over him at the gate;Job 31:21
Number of the word / term Orphan in Job: 7
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 10:14 You do see, for you examine hardship and sorrow, so that you may deliver them into your hands. The poor one has been abandoned to you. You will be a helper to the orphan.Psalm 10:14
Psalm 10:18 so as to judge for the orphan and the humble, so that man may no longer presume to magnify himself upon the earth.Psalm 10:18
Psalm 68:5 the father of orphans and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place.Psalm 68:5
Psalm 82:3 Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.Psalm 82:3
Psalm 94:6 They have executed the widow and the new arrival, and they have slaughtered the orphan.Psalm 94:6
Psalm 109:9 May his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow.Psalm 109:9
Psalm 146:9 The Lord watches over new arrivals. He will support the orphan and the widow. And he will destroy the ways of sinners.Psalm 146:9
Number of the word / term Orphan in Psalm: 7
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.Isaiah 1:17
Isaiah 1:23 Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow’s case is not brought before them.Isaiah 1:23
Isaiah 9:17 For this reason, the Lord will not rejoice over their youths. And he will not take pity on their orphans and widows. For each one is a hypocrite, and each one is wicked, and every mouth has spoken foolishness. After all this, his fury was not turned away; instead, his hand was still extended.Isaiah 9:17
Isaiah 10:2 in order to oppress the poor in judgment, and to do violence to the case of the humble of my people, in order that widows may be their prey, and that they might plunder the orphan.Isaiah 10:2
Number of the word / term Orphan in Isaiah: 4
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 5:28 They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.Jeremiah 5:28
Jeremiah 7:6 if you do not act with deceit toward the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow, and if you do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and if you do not walk after strange gods, which is to your own harm,Jeremiah 7:6
Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.Jeremiah 22:3
Jeremiah 49:11 Leave behind your orphans. I will make sure that they live. And your widows will hope in me.”Jeremiah 49:11
Number of the word / term Orphan in Jeremiah: 4
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Lamentations
Lamentations 5:3 We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.Lamentations 5:3
Number of the word / term Orphan in Lamentations: 1
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 22:7 They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.Ezekiel 22:7
Number of the word / term Orphan in Ezekiel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Hosea
Hosea 14:3 Assur will not save us; we will not ride on horses. Neither will we say any more, ‘The works of our hands are our gods,’ for those that are in you will have mercy on the orphan.”Hosea 14:3
Number of the word / term Orphan in Hosea: 1
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Zechariah
Zechariah 7:10 And do not find fault with the widow, and the orphan, and the newcomer, and the poor. And let not a man consider evil in his heart towards his brother.Zechariah 7:10
Number of the word / term Orphan in Zechariah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book Malachi
Malachi 3:5 And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.Malachi 3:5
Number of the word / term Orphan in Malachi: 1
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book John
John 14:18 I will not leave you orphans. I will return to you.John 14:18
Number of the word / term Orphan in John: 1
Bible passages with ‘Orphan’ in the book James
James 1:27 This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.James 1:27
Number of the word / term ‘Orphan’ in James: 1
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