Maidservant
שִׁפְחָהStrong’s H8198shiphchah (shiph-chah)
Appears in 58 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shiphchah is the Hebrew word usually translated “maidservant your”, “maidservant of” and “female servants”. It appears in 58 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.”
Meaning
- Maid, maid-servant, slavegirlmaid, maid-servant (as belonging to a mistress) · of address, speaker, humility (fig)
How it's translated
- maidservant your 11
- maidservant of 7
- and female servants 4
- maidservant my 3
- maidservant her 3
- the maidservants 3
- and to female slaves 3
- female slave his 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 26
- 2 Samuel 7
- 1 Samuel 6
- Jeremiah 4
- 2 Kings 3
- Isaiah 2
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 16:1Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
- Genesis 16:2And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
- Genesis 16:3And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
- Genesis 16:5And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
- Genesis 16:6But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
- Genesis 16:8And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
All 58 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁפְחָה shiphchah · maidservant
1) maid, maid-servant, slavegirl 1a) maid, maid-servant (as belonging to a mistress) 1b) of address, speaker, 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.