Strong H519אָמָה

maidservant

Transliteration
'âmâh
Pronunciation
aw-maw'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

Apparently a primitive word; a maidservant or female slave: - (hand-) bondmaid (-woman6) maid (-servant).

Detailed definition

STEP sense: maidservant

Exact lexical definition: maid

Part of speech: noun

BDB context: אָמָה n.f . maid , handmaid lit. maidservant fig. in address

In the Bible

Strong H519 appears in 49 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • handmaid18
  • maidservant18
  • maid8
  • bondwoman3
  • bondmaid1
  • let1

First verses

  1. Genesis 20:17
    So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
  2. Genesis 21:10
    Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
  3. Genesis 21:12
    And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
  4. Genesis 21:13
    And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
  5. Genesis 30:3
    And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
  6. Genesis 31:33
    And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
  7. Exodus 2:5
    And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
  8. Exodus 20:10
    But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
  9. Exodus 20:17
    Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
  10. Exodus 21:7
    And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
  11. Exodus 21:20
    And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
  12. Exodus 21:26
    And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
  13. Exodus 21:27
    And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
  14. Exodus 21:32
    If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
  15. Exodus 23:12
    Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
  16. Leviticus 25:6
    And the sabbath of the land 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 with thee,
  17. Leviticus 25:44
    Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
  18. Deuteronomy 5:14
    But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
  19. Deuteronomy 5:21
    Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
  20. Deuteronomy 12:12
    And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
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