Maidservant
אָמָהStrong’s H0519amah (a-mah)
Appears in 49 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amah is the Hebrew word usually translated “maidservant your”, “female servant your” and “female slave his”. It appears in 49 verses of the Old Testament.
“So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.”
Meaning
- Maid-servant, female slave, maid, handmaid, concubineof humility (fig.)
How it's translated
- maidservant your 14
- and female servant your 6
- female slave his 4
- the slave woman 3
- to maidservant your 3
- the maidservants 2
- and female servant his 2
- maidservant his 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 9
- Deuteronomy 7
- 1 Samuel 7
- Genesis 6
- 2 Samuel 5
- 1 Kings 3
14 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 21:10Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
- Genesis 21:12And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
- Genesis 21:13And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
- Genesis 30:3And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
- Genesis 31:33And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
- Exodus 2:5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
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Hebrew dictionary
אָמָה amah · maidservant
1) maid-servant, female slave, maid, handmaid, concubine 1a) of humility (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “maidservant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MA'ID-SERVANT, noun
A female servant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.