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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, and a servant-girl G3814 came to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:66 -

And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls G3814 of the high priest *came,

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:69 - And when the servant-girl G3814 saw him, she began once more to say to the bystanders, “This is one of them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:45 - “But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master [fn]will be a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants G3814, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:56 - And a servant-girl G3814, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, “This man was with Him too.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:17 - Then the servant-girl G3814 who kept the door *said to Peter, “Are you not also one of this man’s disciples?” He *said, “I am not.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:13 - And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a servant-girl G3814 named Rhoda came to answer.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:16 -

Now it happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a servant-girl G3814 having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:22 - For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman G3814 and one by the free woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:23 - But the son by the servant-woman G3814 had been born according to the flesh, while the son by the free woman through the promise.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:30 - But what does the Scripture say?

“CAST OUT THE SERVANT-WOMAN G3814 AND HER SON,

FOR THE SON OF THE SERVANT-WOMAN G3814 SHALL NOT BE AN HEIR WITH THE SON OF THE FREE WOMAN.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:31 -

So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant-woman G3814, [fn]but of the free woman.

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