Lexicon yathom: an orphan Original Word: יָתוֹםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: yathom Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-thome') Short Definition: orphan NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitionan orphan NASB Translationfatherless (7), fatherless children (1), orphan (26), orphans (8).
Brown-Driver-Briggs יָתוֺם noun [masculine] orphan (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יַתְמָא,  ; Phoenician יתם; Arabic  pupil, orphan) — יָתוֺם Exodus 22:21 29t.; plural יְתוֺמִים Exodus 22:23 8t.; suffix יְתֹמֶיךָ Jeremiah 49:11; יְתֹמָיו Isaiah 9:16; לִיתוֺמָיו Psalm 109:12; — orphan, i.e. fatherless ("" אַלְמָנָה) Exodus 22:23; Psalm 109:9; Lamentations 5:3 ("" אַין אָב); Job 24:9; Psalm 109:12; probably also Exodus 22:21; Deuteronomy 10:18; Deuteronomy 14:29; Deuteronomy 16:11,14; Deuteronomy 24:17,19,20,21; Deuteronomy 26:12,13; Deuteronomy 27:19; Psalm 94:6; Psalm 146:9; Jeremiah 7:6; Jeremiah 22:3; Zechariah 7:10; Malachi 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; Psalm 68:6; Isaiah 1:17,23; Isaiah 9:16; Isaiah 10:2; Jeremiah 49:11; Ezekiel 22:7; without אלמנה Hosea 14:4; Job 6:27; Job 31:21; Psalm 10:14; Psalm 10:18; Proverbs 23:10; Jeremiah 5:28 (in no case clear that both parents are dead). Strong's fatherless child, orphan From an unused root meaning to be lonely; a bereaved person -- fatherless (child), orphan. |
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