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Lexicon :: Strong's H8198 - šip̄ḥâ

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שִׁפְחָה
Transliteration
šip̄ḥâ
Pronunciation
shif-khaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see מִשְׁפָּחָה (H4940))
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TWOT Reference: 2442a

Strong’s Definitions

שִׁפְחָה shiphchâh, shif-khaw'; feminine from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see H4940); a female slave (as a member of the household):—(bond-, hand-) maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 63x

The KJV translates Strong's H8198 in the following manner: handmaid (29x), maid (12x), maidservant (8x), bondwomen (3x), maiden (3x), womenservants (3x), handmaidens (2x), bondmaid (1x), servant (1x), wench (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 63x
The KJV translates Strong's H8198 in the following manner: handmaid (29x), maid (12x), maidservant (8x), bondwomen (3x), maiden (3x), womenservants (3x), handmaidens (2x), bondmaid (1x), servant (1x), wench (1x).

  1. maid, maid-servant, slavegirl

    1. maid, maid-servant (as belonging to a mistress)

    2. of address, speaker, humility (fig)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שִׁפְחָה shiphchâh, shif-khaw'; feminine from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see H4940); a female slave (as a member of the household):—(bond-, hand-) maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.
STRONGS H8198: Abbreviations
† שִׁפְחָה noun feminine maid, maid-servant (synonym אָמָה, which see; originally = concubine ? compare √); — absolute שׁ׳ Genesis 16:1 +; construct שִׁפְחַת Genesis 16:2 +; suffix שִׁפְחָתִי Genesis 16:2 +, etc.; plural absolute שְׁפָחוֺת Genesis 12:16 +; suffix שִׁפְחֹתֶ֑ךָ Ruth 2:13, etc.; —
1. literally, maid, maid-servant, as belonging to a mistress Genesis 16:1, 3, 6, 8 (PJ) Genesis 29:24; Genesis 29:29 (P) Psalm 123:2; Proverbs 30:23; Isaiah 24:2; even where concubine of master (compare אָמָה) Genesis 16:2, 5 (PJ) Genesis 25:12; Genesis 35:25, 26 (P) Genesis 30:4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 18 (all J E); less often reference to master Genesis 29:24, 29 (J), Ruth 2:13, of concubine Genesis 32:23, compare Genesis 33:1, 2, 6 (all J); marriageable Leviticus 19:20 (H, compare Exodus 11:5; not elsewhere in legisl.); in general, especially of menial service (never אָמָה) Exodus 11:5 (J) 1 Samuel 25:41 (opposed to אָמָה) 2 Samuel 17:17 (|| עֶבֶד) Genesis 12:16; Genesis 24:35(J) Genesis 20:14 (E) Genesis 30:43 (P) Genesis 32:6 (J; collective) Deuteronomy 28:68; 1 Samuel 8:16; 2 Kings 5:26; Isaiah 14:2; Jeremiah 34:9, 10, 11 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 34:16 (twice in verse); Joel 3:2; Ecclesiastes 2:7; 2 Chronicles 28:10; Esther 7:4.
2. figurative in address, שִׁפְחָֽתְךָ, etc., of speaker, in token of humility (see אָמָה) Ruth 2:13 (|| אָמָה Ruth 3:9), 1 Samuel 1:18 (|| id. 1 Samuel 1:16), 1 Samuel 25:27, (|| 1 Samuel 25:24f.), 1 Samuel 28:21, 22; 2 Samuel 14:6, 7, 12 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 14:15, 17, 19; (|| אָמָה 2 Samuel 14:15; 2 Samuel 14:16); 2 Kings 4:2, 16; not toward God; but see אָמָה.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:16; 12:16; 16:1; 16:1; 16:2; 16:2; 16:2; 16:3; 16:5; 16:6; 16:8; 20:14; 24:35; 25:12; 29:24; 29:24; 29:29; 29:29; 30:4; 30:7; 30:9; 30:10; 30:12; 30:18; 30:43; 32:6; 32:23; 33:1; 33:2; 33:6; 35:25; 35:26

Exodus

11:5; 11:5

Leviticus

19:20

Deuteronomy

28:68

Ruth

2:13; 2:13; 2:13; 3:9

1 Samuel

1:16; 1:18; 8:16; 25:24; 25:27; 25:41; 28:21; 28:22

2 Samuel

14:6; 14:7; 14:12; 14:15; 14:15; 14:16; 14:17; 14:19; 17:17

2 Kings

4:2; 4:16; 5:26

2 Chronicles

28:10

Esther

7:4

Psalms

123:2

Proverbs

30:23

Ecclesiastes

2:7

Isaiah

14:2; 24:2

Jeremiah

34:9; 34:10; 34:11; 34:16

Joel

3:2

H8198

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8198 matches the Hebrew שִׁפְחָה (šip̄ḥâ),
which occurs 63 times in 58 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 12:16–Pro 30:23)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - Therefore he treated Abram well because of her; and sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female H8198 servants H8198 and female donkeys and camels [fn]came into his possession.

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Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian servant-woman H8198 whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. Please go in to my servant-woman H8198; perhaps I will [fn]obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - And after Abram had [fn]lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant-woman H8198, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sarai said to Abram, “May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman H8198 into your [fn]embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became [fn]contemptible in her [fn]sight. May Yahweh judge between [fn]you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant-woman H8198 is in your [fn]hand; do to her what is good in your [fn]sight.” So Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:8 - And he said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant-woman H8198, where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Abimelech then took sheep and oxen and male and female H8198 slaves H8198 and gave them to Abraham and returned his wife Sarah to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - “And Yahweh has greatly blessed my master, so he has become great; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and male slaves and female slaves H8198, and camels and donkeys.

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Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant-woman H8198, bore to Abraham;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - Laban also gave his servant-woman H8198 Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a servant-woman H8198.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:29 - Laban also gave his servant-woman H8198 Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her servant-woman H8198.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - So she gave him her servant-woman H8198 Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:7 - And Rachel’s servant-woman H8198 Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 -

Then Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, so she took her servant-woman H8198 Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - And Leah’s servant-woman H8198 Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:12 - And Leah’s servant-woman H8198 Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:18 - And Leah said, “God has given me my [fn]wages because I gave my servant-woman H8198 to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:43 - So the man spread out exceedingly and had large flocks and female H8198 and male servants H8198 and camels and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:5 - and I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female H8198 slaves H8198; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.”’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 -

And he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two servant-women H8198 and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

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Then Jacob lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children [fn]among Leah and Rachel and the two servant-women H8198.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - And he put the servant-women H8198 and their children first, and Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:6 - Then the servant-women H8198 came near [fn]with their children, and they bowed down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:25 -

and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant-woman H8198:

Dan and Naphtali;

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and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant-woman H8198:

Gad and Asher.

These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:5 - and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the servant-girl H8198 who is behind the millstones; and all the firstborn of the cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:20 -

‘Now if a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave H8198 assigned to another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death because she was not free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:68

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - “And Yahweh will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female H8198 slaves H8198, but there will be no buyer.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:13 - Then she said, “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken to the heart of your servant-woman H8198, though I am not like one of your servant-women H8198.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:18 - And she said, “Let your servant-woman H8198 find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:16 - “He will also take your male slaves and your female H8198 slaves H8198 and your best young men and your donkeys and [fn]use them for his work.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:27 - “So now let this [fn]gift which your servant-woman H8198 has brought to my lord be given to the young men who [fn]went about with my lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:41 - And she arose and bowed with her [fn]face to the ground and said, “Behold, your maidservant is a servant-woman to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:21 - And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was terrified and said to him, “Behold, your servant-woman H8198 has listened to your voice, and I have [fn]taken my life in my hand and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:22 - “So now also, please listen to the voice of your servant-woman H8198, and let me set a piece of bread before you that you may eat and have strength when you go on your way.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6 - “And your servant-woman H8198 had two sons, but the two of them struggled together in the field, and there was no one to deliver between them, so one struck the other and put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - “And behold, the whole family has risen against your servant-woman H8198, and they say, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they will extinguish my coal which remains, so as to [fn]leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:12 -

Then the woman said, “Please let your servant-woman H8198 speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - “So now, [fn]the reason I have come to speak this word to my lord the king is that the people have made me afraid; so your servant-woman H8198 said, ‘Let me now speak to the king, perhaps the king will perform the word of his maidservant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:17 - “Then your servant-woman H8198 said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king be a resting place, for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king to listen with discernment through the good and evil. And may Yahweh your God be with you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - So the king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman answered and said, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant-woman H8198;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:17 - Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, and a servant-woman H8198 would go and inform them, and they would go and inform King David, for they could not be seen entering the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your servant-woman H8198 has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:16 - Then he said, “At this season [fn]next year you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your servant-woman H8198.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 -

Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female H8198 slaves H8198?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:10 - “So now you are [fn]intending to subdue for yourselves the people of Judah and Jerusalem for male and female H8198 slaves H8198. Surely, do you not have your own matters of guilt against Yahweh your God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:4 - for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be caused to perish. Now if we had only been sold as slaves H8198, men and women H8198, I would have remained silent, for the [fn]adversity would not be worth the [fn]annoyance to the king.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 123:2 -

Behold, as the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,

As the eyes of a servant-girl to the hand of her mistress,

So our eyes look to Yahweh our God,

Until He is gracious to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:23 -

Under [fn]an unloved woman when she gets a husband,

And a servant-girl H8198 when she supplants her mistress.


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