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:
Esther 7:4: "But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not"
Psalms 123:2: "the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so"
Proverbs 30:23: "an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress."
Ecclesiastes 2:7: "I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had"
Isaiah 14:2: "the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over"
Isaiah 24:2: "so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender,"
Jeremiah 34:9: "his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free;"
Jeremiah 34:10: "his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve"
Jeremiah 34:11: "But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free,"
Jeremiah 34:11: "free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids."
Jeremiah 34:16: "his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure,"
Jeremiah 34:16: "and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids."
Joel 2:29: "upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out"
