- Original: אמה
- Transliteration: 'amah
- Phonetic: aw-maw'
- Definition:
1. maid-servant, female slave, maid, handmaid, concubine
a. of humility (fig.)
- Origin: apparently a primitive word
- TWOT entry: 112
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine
- Strong's: Apparently a primitive word; a maidservant or female slave: - (hand-) bondmaid (-woman6) maid (-servant).
Total KJV Occurrences: 56
• bondmaids, 2
Leviticus 25:44(2)
• bondwoman, 4
Genesis 21:10(2);
Genesis 21:12;
Genesis 21:13
• handmaid, 22
Exodus 23:12;
Judges 19:19;
Ruth 3:9(2);
1 Samuel 1:11(3);
1 Samuel 1:16;
1 Samuel 25:24(2);
1 Samuel 25:25;
1 Samuel 25:28;
1 Samuel 25:31;
1 Samuel 25:41;
2 Samuel 14:15;
2 Samuel 14:16;
2 Samuel 20:17;
1 Kings 1:13;
1 Kings 1:17;
1 Kings 3:20;
Psalm 86:16;
Psalm 116:16
• handmaids, 1
2 Samuel 6:20
• maid, 5
Genesis 30:3;
Exodus 2:5;
Exodus 21:20;
Exodus 21:26;
Leviticus 25:6
• maids, 3
Ezra 2:65;
Job 19:15;
Nahum 2:7
• maidservant, 14
Exodus 20:10;
Exodus 20:17;
Exodus 21:7;
Exodus 21:27;
Exodus 21:32;
Deuteronomy 5:14(2);
Deuteronomy 5:21;
Deuteronomy 12:18;
Deuteronomy 15:17;
Deuteronomy 16:11;
Deuteronomy 16:14;
Judges 9:18;
Job 31:13
• maidservants, 5
Genesis 20:17;
Genesis 31:33;
Deuteronomy 12:12;
2 Samuel 6:22;
Nehemiah 7:67