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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, (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 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; παιδίσκη 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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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 TR Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:69 -

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant girl approached him and said, “You were with Jesus the Galilean too.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:66 -

While Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the high priest’s maidservants came.

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:69 -

When the maidservant saw him again, she began to tell those standing nearby, “This man is one of them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:45 -

“But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:56 -

When a servant saw him sitting in the light, and looked closely at him, she said, “This man was with him too.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:17 -

Then the servant girl who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you? ”

“I am not,” he said.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:13 -

He knocked at the door of the outer gate, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:16 -

Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling.

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:22 -

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and the other by a free woman.

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:23 -

But the one by the slave was born as a result of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born through promise.

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:30 -

But what does the Scripture say? “Drive out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave will never be a coheir with the son of the free woman.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:31 -

Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of a slave but of the free woman.

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