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:
Nehemiah 7:67: "Beside their menservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three"
Job 19:15: "They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight."
Job 31:13: "I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with"
Psalms 86:16: "unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid."
Psalms 116:16: "I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed"
Nahum 2:7: "And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, taboring"
