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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 maid 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 maids of the high priest came;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:69

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:69 - And the maid 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 menservants and the maidservants, 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 maid, seeing him as he sat in the light and gazing 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 maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are not you also one of this man's disciples?" 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 maid 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 soothsaying.

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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 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, the son of the free woman 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 and her son; for the son of the slave 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, brethren, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.
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