G5503 – chera – χήρα – widow
- Strong’s ID:
- G5503
- Greek Word:
- χήρα
- Transliteration:
- chēra / chera
- Pronunciation:
- khay’-rah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 27
- Search:
- Find “chera” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of G5490 through the idea of deficiency; a widow (as lacking a husband), literally or figuratively:—widow.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a widow
2) metaphorically a city stripped of its inhabitants and riches is represented under the figure of a widow
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.