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Lexicon :: Strong's G3814 - paidiskē

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παιδίσκη
Transliteration
paidiskē (Key)
Pronunciation
pahee-dis'-kay
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From diminutive of παῖς (G3816)
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Strong’s Definitions

παιδίσκη paidískē, pahee-dis'-kay; feminine diminutive of G3816; a girl, i.e. (specially), a female slave or servant:—bondmaid(-woman), damsel, maid(-en).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's G3814 in the following manner: damsel (4x), bondwomen (4x), maid (3x), maiden (1x), bondmaid (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's G3814 in the following manner: damsel (4x), bondwomen (4x), maid (3x), maiden (1x), bondmaid (1x).

  1. a young girl, damsel

  2. a maid-servant, a young female slave

    1. a maid servant who has charge of the door

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παιδίσκη paidískē, pahee-dis'-kay; feminine diminutive of G3816; a girl, i.e. (specially), a female slave or servant:—bondmaid(-woman), damsel, maid(-en).
STRONGS G3814:
παιδίσκη, παιδίσκης, ἡ (feminine of παιδίσκος, a young boy or slave; a diminutive of παῖς, see νεανίσκος);
1. a young girl, damsel (Xenophon, Menander, Polybius, Plutarch, Lucian; the Sept. Ruth 4:12).
2. a maid-servant, a young female slave; cf. German Mädchen (our maid) for a young female-servant (Herodotus 1, 93; Lysias, Demosthenes, others): Luke 12:45; Acts 16:16; opposed to ἡ ἐλευθέρα, Galatians 4:22f, 30f; specifically, of the maid-servant who had charge of the door: Matthew 26:69; Mark 14:66, 69; Luke 22:56; Acts 12:13; ἡ παιδίσκη ἡ θυρωρός, John 18:17; (also in the Sept. of a female slave, often for אָמָה, שִׁפְחָה). Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 239. (Synonym: see παῖς, at the end.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Ruth
4:12
Matthew
26:69
Mark
14:66; 14:69
Luke
12:45; 22:56
John
18:17
Acts
12:13; 16:16
Galatians
4:22; 4:30

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3814 matches the Greek παιδίσκη (paidiskē),
which occurs 13 times in 12 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:69

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:69 -

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came up to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:66

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While Peter was down below in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:69

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:69 - The servant-girl saw him, and began once more to tell the bystanders, “This [man] is one of them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:45 - “But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is taking his time in coming,’ and begins to beat the servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:56

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:56 - And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, “This man was with Him too.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:17 - Then the servant girl who kept the door said to Peter, “You are not one of this Man’s disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:13 - When he knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant-girl named Rhoda came to answer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:16 -

It happened that as we were on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave-girl who had [fn]a spirit of divination [that is, a demonic spirit claiming to foretell the future and discover hidden knowledge], and she brought her owners a good profit by fortune-telling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:22 - For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman [Hagar] and one by the free woman [Sarah].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:23 - But the child of the slave woman was born according to the flesh and had an ordinary birth, while the son of the free woman was born in fulfillment of the promise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:30 - But what does the Scripture say?

“CAST OUT THE BONDWOMAN [Hagar] AND HER SON [Ishmael],

FOR NEVER SHALL THE SON OF THE BONDWOMAN BE HEIR and SHARE THE INHERITANCE WITH THE SON OF THE FREE WOMAN.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:31 -

So then, believers, we [who are born again—reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose] are not children of a slave woman [the natural], but of the free woman [the supernatural].

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