Strong's Lexicon

H3490

H3490 — יָתוֹם

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewyathowmnoun mascOccurrences: 42TWOT: 934a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3490
Word:יָתוֹם
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from an unused root meaning to be lonely
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:42
Transliteration:yathowm
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:yaw-thome'
Meaning:1. a bereaved person
KJV Renderings:fatherless (child), orphan.

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יָתוֺם noun [masculine] orphan (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יַתְמָא, [untranscribed source text 2369]; Phoenician יתם; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2370] pupil, orphan) — יָתוֺם Exod 22:21 + 29 t.; plural יְתוֺמִים v.Exod 22:23 + 8 t.; suffix יְתֹמֶיךָ Jer 49:11 יְתֹמָיו Isa 9:16 לִיתוֺמָיו Ps 109:12 — orphan, i.e. fatherless (|| אַלְמָנָה) Exod 22:23; Ps 109:9; Lam 5:3 (|| אַין אָב); Job 24:9; Ps 109:12 probably also Exod 22:21; Deut 10:18; Deut 14:29; Deut 16:11; Deut 16:14; Deut 24:17; Deut 24:19; Deut 24:20; Deut 24:21; Deut 26:12; Deut 26:13; Deut 27:19; Ps 94:6 ; Ps 146:9 ; Jer 7:6; Jer 22:3; Zech 7:10; Mal 3:5 (in all these, mentioned as helpless, exposed to injury, || אַלְמָנָה and גֵּר); similarly, || אַלְמָנָה Job 22:9; Job 24:3; Job 29:12; Job 31:17; Ps 68:6; Isa 1:17; Isa 1:23; Isa 9:16; Isa 10:2; without אלמנה Hos 14:4; Job 6:27; Job 31:21; Ps 10:14; Ps 10:18; Prov 23:10; Jer 5:28 (in no case clear that both parents are dead).


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

יתום (yah-thohm’)

Exodus 22:22

KJV: Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
EHCC: (21). afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Exodus 14:29

KJV: But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
EHCC: & 16:11, 14. the stranger, and the fatherless,

Exodus 24:17

KJV: And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
EHCC: (nor) of the fatherless;

Exodus 26:12

KJV: And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
EHCC: unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless,

Exodus 27:19

KJV: All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
EHCC: the judgment of the stranger, fatherless,

Job 6:27

KJV: Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon
EHCC: ye overwhelm pan baie

Job 22:9

KJV: Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
EHCC: the arms of the fatherless have been broken,

Job 24:8

KJV: They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
EHCC: They drive away the ass of the fatherless,

Job 29:12

KJV: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
EHCC: the that cried, and the fatherless,

Psalms 10:14

KJV: Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.committeth: Heb. leaveth
EHCC: thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Psalms 68:5

KJV: A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
EHCC: (6).A Of the fatherless,

Psalms 82:3

KJV: Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.Defend: Heb. Judge
EHCC: Defend the poor and fatherless ;

Psalms 94:6

KJV: They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
EHCC: and murder the fatherless.

Psalms 109:9

KJV: Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
EHCC: Let his children be fotherless,

Psalms 146:9

KJV: The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
EHCC: סמ relieveth on Gray: and widow:

Proverbs 23:10

KJV: Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:landmark: or, bound
EHCC: enter not into fields of the fatherless :

Isaiah 1:17

KJV: Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.relieve: or, righten
EHCC: judge the fatherless,

Isaiah 9:17

KJV: Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.folly: or, villany
EHCC: (16).shall have mercy on their fatherless

Isaiah 10:2

KJV: To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
EHCC: (that) they may rob the fatherless’

Jeremiah 5:28

KJV: They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
EHCC: the cause of the fatherless,

Jeremiah 7:6

KJV: If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
EHCC: the fatherless, and the widow,

Jeremiah 22:3

KJV: Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
EHCC: the fatherless, nor the widow,

Jeremiah 49:11

KJV: Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
EHCC: Leave thy fatherless children,

Lamentations 5:3

KJV: We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
EHCC: We are orphans and fatherless, .

Ezekiel 22:7

KJV: In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.oppression: or, deceit
EHCC: in thee have they vexed the fatherless

Hosea 14:3

KJV: Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
EHCC: (4).in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

Zechariah 7:10

KJV: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
EHCC: oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless,

Malachi 3:5

KJV: And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.oppress: or, defraud
EHCC: the widow, and the fatherless,
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