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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

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Strong's Number H8198 matches the Hebrew שִׁפְחָה (šip̄ḥâ),
which occurs 28 times in 26 verses in 'Gen' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16

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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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 -

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

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

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

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

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

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 BoxGen 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 BoxGen 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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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 -

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

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

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 BoxGen 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 BoxGen 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

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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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 -

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

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

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

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:25 -

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

Dan and Naphtali;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26 -

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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