Bible dictionaries
Wench
What Bible dictionaries say about “Wench”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Wench - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
WENCH, n.
1. A young woman. [Little used.]
2. A young woman of ill fame.
3. In America, a black or colored female servant; a negress.
WENCH, v.i. To frequent the company of women of ill fame.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
wench, wensh (shiphchah): The word "wench" is found only in 2Sa 17:17 the King James Version, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "maid-servant." The Hebrew word shiphchah here used is a common term for maid-servant, female slave. the King James Version used the word "wench" to convey the meaning maid-servant, which was a common use of the word at that time, but it is now practically obsolete.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915