Strong's #8198: shiphchah (pronounced shif-khaw')
feminine from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see 4940); a female slave (as a member of the household):--(bond-, hand-)maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shiphchâh
1) maid, maid-servant, slavegirl
1a) maid, maid-servant (as belonging to a mistress)
1b) of address, speaker, humility (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see H4940)
Usage:
This word is used 63 times:
Genesis 12:16: "sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels."
Genesis 16:1: "Abram's wife bore him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar."
Genesis 16:2: "me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by"
Genesis 16:3: "took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram"
Genesis 16:5: "be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived,"
Genesis 16:6: "unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth"
Genesis 16:8: "And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest"
Genesis 20:14: "sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him"
Genesis 24:35: "and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses."
Genesis 25:12: "Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham:"
Genesis 29:24: "Leah Zilpah his maid for a handmaid."
Genesis 29:24: "Zilpah his maid for a handmaid."
Genesis 29:29: "his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid."
Genesis 29:29: "Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid."
Genesis 30:4: "And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto"
Genesis 30:7: "And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second"
Genesis 30:9: "bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife."
Genesis 30:10: "And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Jacob a son."
Genesis 30:12: "And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Jacob a second son."
Genesis 30:18: "me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar."
Genesis 30:43: "exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses."
Genesis 32:5: "and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find"
Genesis 32:22: "his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over"
Genesis 33:1: "Rachel, and unto the two handmaids."
Genesis 33:2: "And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after,"
Genesis 33:6: " Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves."
Genesis 35:25: "And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:"
Genesis 35:26: "And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons"
Exodus 11:5: "upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill;"
Leviticus 19:20: "carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband,"
Deuteronomy 28:68: "ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy"
Ruth 2:13: "me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not"
Ruth 2:13: "though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens."
1 Samuel 1:18: "And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way,"
1 Samuel 8:16: "And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work."
1 Samuel 25:27: "this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men"
1 Samuel 25:41: "and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
1 Samuel 28:21: "and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life"
1 Samuel 28:22: "thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before"
2 Samuel 14:6: " And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part"
2 Samuel 14:7: "family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote"
2 Samuel 14:12: "Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord"
2 Samuel 14:15: "it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto"
2 Samuel 14:17: " Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable:"
2 Samuel 14:19: "all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:"
2 Samuel 17:17: "be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went"
2 Kings 4:2: "hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save"
2 Kings 4:16: "thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid."
2 Kings 5:26: "and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?"
2 Chronicles 28:10: "of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you,"
