Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H519

אָמָה

a.mah · “maidservant”

Used 56 times across 14 books

Definition

1) maid-servant, female slave, maid, handmaid, concubine
1a) of humility (fig.)

Where it appears

Genesis

7

Exodus

9

Leviticus

3

Deuteronomy

8

Judges

2

Ruth

2

1 Samuel

10

2 Samuel

5

1 Kings

3

Ezra

1

Nehemiah

1

Job

2

Psalms

2

Nahum

1

In the text

Genesis 20:17So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.Genesis 21:10Wherefore 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.Genesis 21:12And 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.Genesis 21:13And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.Genesis 30:3And 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.Genesis 31:33And 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.Exodus 2:5And 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.Exodus 20:10But 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:Exodus 20:17Thou 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.Exodus 21:7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

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