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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ὀρφανός

(Strong's #3737 — Adjective — orphanos — or-fan-os' )

properly, "an orphan," is rendered "fatherless" in James 1:27; "desolate" in John 14:18 , for AV, "comfortless." See COMFORTLESS.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Fatherless'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​f/fatherless.html. 1940.
 
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