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Luke 2:37

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2:37She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years.108 She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.109

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  1. 108 Grk “living with her husband for seven years from her virginity and she was a widow for eighty four years.” The chronology of the eighty-four years is unclear, since the final phrase could mean “she was widowed until the age of eighty-four” (so ἕως 1.b.α). However, the more natural way to take the syntax is as a reference to the length of her widowhood, the subject of the clause, in which case Anna was about 105 years old (so D. L. Bock, Luke [], 1:; I. H. Marshall, Luke, [], ).
  2. 109 The statements about Anna worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day make her extreme piety clear.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

and was a widow for eighty-four years. She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then she lived as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

and herself as a widow up to eighty-four years) who did not depart from the temple with fastings and prayers, serving night and day.

KJV 1900King James Version

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.