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Orphan [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bereaved of parents.

Orphan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A child who is bereaved of father or mother or of both.

Orphan [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.

Orphan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.

Orphan [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.

Orphanage [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. OR'PHANAGE ,

2. OR'PHANISM, noun The state of an orphan.

Orphanage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.

2. An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.

Orphancy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Orphanhood.

Orphaned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Orphan

Orphanet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A little orphan.

Orphanhood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.

Orphaning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Orphan

Orphanism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Orphanhood.

Orphanotrophism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The care and support of orphans.

Orphanotrophy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A hospital for orphans.

Orphanotrophy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A hospital for orphans.

2. The act of supporting orphans.

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5 KJV and 7 BSB verses contain “orphan”

Exodus 22:22

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

Job 6:27

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

Isaiah 10:2

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!

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

Jeremiah 49:11

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

Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

John 14:18

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

2 Esdras 2:20

Do right to the widow, judge for the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,

Tobit 1:8

And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.

2 Maccabees 8:28

And after the sabbath, when they had given part of the spoils to the maimed, and the widows, and orphans, the residue they divided among themselves and their servants.

2 Maccabees 8:30

Moreover of those that were with Timotheus and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.