“widowhood” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word widowhood appears 7 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 7 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 38:14 And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.
- Genesis 38:19 And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.
- 2 Kings 20:3 And when the king was come into his house at Jerusalem, he took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them inward, allowing them provisions: and he went not in unto them, but they were shut up unto the day of their death living in widowhood.
- Judith 10:2 And she called her maid, and going down into her house she took off her haircloth, and put away the garments of her widowhood,
- Judith 16:9 For she put off her the garments of widowhood, and put on her the garments of joy, to give joy to the children of Israel.
- Isaias 47:9 These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.
- Isaias 54:4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded, nor blush: for thou shalt not be put to shame, because thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt remember no more the reproach of thy widowhood.