Strong's #519: 'amah (pronounced aw-maw')
apparently a primitive word; a maid-servant or female slave:--(hand-)bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âmâh
1) maid-servant, female slave, maid, handmaid, concubine
1a) of humility (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: apparently a primitive word
Usage:
This word is used 56 times:
Genesis 20:17: "Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bore"
Genesis 21:10: "unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this"
Genesis 21:10: "for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son,"
Genesis 21:12: "because of the lad, thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said"
Genesis 21:13: "And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he"
Genesis 30:3: "And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon"
Genesis 31:33: "and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; them not. Then went"
Exodus 2:5: "the flags, she sent her maid to fetch"
Exodus 20:10: "nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:"
Exodus 20:17: "thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that"
Exodus 21:7: "sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants"
Exodus 21:20: "his servant, or his maid, with a rod, under his hand;"
Exodus 21:26: "or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake."
Exodus 21:27: "his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free"
Exodus 21:32: "shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty"
Exodus 23:12: "may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed."
Leviticus 25:6: "shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth"
Leviticus 25:44: "Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that"
Leviticus 25:44: "are round about you; of bondmen and bondmaids."
Deuteronomy 5:14: "nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle,"
Deuteronomy 5:14: "is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest"
Deuteronomy 5:21: "house, his field, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that"
Deuteronomy 12:12: "and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, that is within your gates; forasmuch"
Deuteronomy 12:18: "thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates:"
Deuteronomy 15:17: "thy servant forever. unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise."
Deuteronomy 16:11: "and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, that is within thy gates, and the stranger,"
Deuteronomy 16:14: "and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the widow,"
Judges 9:18: "and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem,"
Judges 19:19: "bread and wine for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no"
Ruth 3:9: "And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt thine handmaid;"
Ruth 3:9: "spread therefore thy skirt thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman."
1 Samuel 1:11: "if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, me, and not forget"
1 Samuel 1:11: "me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man"
1 Samuel 1:11: "forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give"
1 Samuel 1:16: "Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for"
1 Samuel 25:24: "Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, in thine audience, and hear"
1 Samuel 25:24: "and hear the words of thine handmaid."
1 Samuel 25:25: "is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw"
1 Samuel 25:28: "I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make"
1 Samuel 25:31: "with my lord, then remember thine handmaid."
1 Samuel 25:41: "to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash of the servants"
2 Samuel 6:20: "uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!"
2 Samuel 6:22: "and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which of, of them shall I be had in honor."
2 Samuel 14:15: "will perform the request of his handmaid."
2 Samuel 14:16: "will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy"
2 Samuel 20:17: "am he. Then she said the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear."
1 Kings 1:13: "O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son"
1 Kings 1:17: "swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon shall reign"
1 Kings 3:20: "and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid"
Ezra 2:65: "Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three"
