orfanos

Strong’sG3737

bereaved, an orphan

stem orfan-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ὀρφανός, -ή, -όν,

[in LXX for יָתוֹם;]

1. prop., orphan, fatherless: Mk 12:40, WH, mg, Ja 1:27.

2. In a general sense (as also in cl.; v. LS, s.v.; and cf. MM, xviii), bereft, friendless, desolate: Jo 14:18.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3737 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidor-fan-os'

bereaved ("orphan"), i.e. parentless

Fromof uncertain affinity;

King Jamescomfortless, fatherless.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ὀρφᾰνός, ή, όν,
also ός, όν Refs 5th c.BC+:— orphan, without parents, fatherless, αἱ δ᾽ ἐλίποντο ὀρφαναί Refs 8th c.BC+: as substantive, orphan, ἐπίκληροι καὶ ὀ. Refs 5th c.BC+; of animals, ὄρνις Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀ. οἶκος, δόμος, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, neglected, ἡ δέλτος ὀρφανὴ κεῖται Refs 3rd c.BC+; ὀρφανὰ κεῖται σκῦλα epigram cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+
II with genitive, bereaved or bereft of,
II.1 of children, ὀ. πατρός reft of father, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 of parents, πότμον ὀρφανὸν γενεᾶς childless, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀ. παιδός, τέκνων, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 generally, ὀ. ἑτάρων Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀρφανοὶ ὕβριος free from insolence, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀ. μαχᾶν, ={ἀπόμαχος}, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀρφανὴ βίου, i.e. poor, Refs 3rd c.BC+ salt-fish without sauce, Refs 5th c.BC+ cf. Latin orbus, Gothic arbi 'inheritance'.)

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

orphans2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	orfanos	orfanas	orfanem	orfanois	orfanais	orfaneim
object accusative	orfanon	orfanan		orfanoin2×ὀρφανούς	orfanain
direct address vocative	orfanor	orfanar		orfanoir	orfanair
of, belonging to genitive	orfanou	orfanau	orfaneu	orfanoiu	orfanaiu	orfaneiu
to, for dative	orfano	orfana	orfane	orfanoi	orfanai	orfanei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

orfanstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

orfan is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

orfanoin“orphans”objectaccusative plural2×

John 14:18Ouk afiēkami vin orfanoin, erchomō pros vin.I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

James 1:27… theo kai patro houtas atō, episkeptorō orfanoin kai chērain en ta thlipsia autoiu, …… Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and …