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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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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 also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:66

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:66 - And as Peter was 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 - And the servant girl saw him and began again to say to 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 to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:56

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:56 - Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:17 - The servant girl at the door said to Peter, “You also 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 - And 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 - As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain 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 a slave woman and one by a free woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:23 - But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through 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 slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:31 - So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
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