Maidservant

Usually translated “slave woman”, “servant girl” and “girl”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• slave woman 4
• servant girl 3
• a girl 2
• servant girls 1
• maid-servants 1
• a servant girl 1
• of slave woman 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Galatians 4
• Mark 2
• Luke 2
• Acts 2
• Matthew 1
• John 1

6 books in all.

• Maidservant (shiphchah)
• Maidservant (amah)

• Mark 14:66And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest:
• Mark 14:69And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.
• Luke 12:45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
• Luke 22:56But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
• John 18:17Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man’s disciples? He saith, I am not.
• Acts 12:13And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “maidservant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.