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Lexicon :: Strong's H519 - 'āmâ

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אָמָה
Transliteration
'āmâ
Pronunciation
aw-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primitive word
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TWOT Reference: 112

Strong’s Definitions

אָמָה ʼâmâh, aw-maw'; apparently a primitive word; a maid-servant or female slave:—(hand-) bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x

The KJV translates Strong's H519 in the following manner: handmaid (22x), maidservant (19x), maid (8x), bondwoman (4x), bondmaids (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x
The KJV translates Strong's H519 in the following manner: handmaid (22x), maidservant (19x), maid (8x), bondwoman (4x), bondmaids (2x).

  1. maid-servant, female slave, maid, handmaid, concubine

    1. of humility (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָמָה ʼâmâh, aw-maw'; apparently a primitive word; a maid-servant or female slave:—(hand-) bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant).
STRONGS H519: Abbreviations
† אָמָה noun feminine maid, handmaid (Phoenician אמת, Arabic أَمَةً, Sabean אמת in proper name SabDenkm20, Aramaic aXtmAf  , Assyrian amtu ZimBP 67) — א׳ absolute Genesis 21:10 +; suffix אֲמָתִי Genesis 30:3 +, etc.; plural absolute אֲמָהֹת Genesis 31:33; 2 Samuel 6:22; construct אַמְהוֺת 2 Samuel 6:20; אַמְהֹתַי Job 19:5 etc. — maid, handmaid.
1. literally maidservant (= שִׁפְחָה which see, where however sometimes more servile; rarely P in Hexateuch) Genesis 30:3; Genesis 31:33 (|| שִׁפְחָה Genesis 29:24, 29; P Genesis 30:4f. J etc.) Exodus 2:5 (all E); 2 Samuel 6:20, 22; Job 19:15; Nahum 2:8 (suffix refers to mistress, except Job 19:15 compare 2 Samuel 6:20, 22); in legisl. (|| עֶבֶד) Exodus 20:10, 17; Exodus 21:20, 26, 27, 32 (all E) Leviticus 25:6, 44 (twice in verse) (H) Deuteronomy 5:14 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 5:18; Deuteronomy 12:12, 18; Deuteronomy 15:17 (compare see 12) Deuteronomy 16:11, 14; compare also Job 31:13; Ezra 2:65; Nehemiah 7:67; applied to concubine (suffix of master) Genesis 20:17; Genesis 21:12; Exodus 23:12 (all E) Judges 9:18; Judges 19:19; also Genesis 21:10 (twice in verse); Genesis 21:13 (Genesis 16:1f. P שִׁפְחָה which see) Exodus 21:7 (all E), see on this StaGesch i: p. 380.
2. figurative in address, אֲמָֽתְךָ etc., referring to speaker, in token of humility; Ruth 3:9 (twice in verse) (|| שׁפחה Ruth 2:13) 1 Samuel 1:16 (|| id. 1 Samuel 1:18) 1 Samuel 25:24 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 25:25, 28, 31, 41 (|| id. 1 Samuel 25:27) 2 Samuel 14:15, 16 (|| id. 2 Samuel 14:6; 2 Samuel 14:7; 2 Samuel 14:12; 2 Samuel 14:15; 2 Samuel 14:17; 2 Samuel 14:19); 2 Samuel 20:17; 1 Kings 1:13, 17; 1 Kings 3:20; in addressing God (never שׁפחה) 1 Samuel 1:11 (3 times in verse), compare בֶּן־א׳ Psalm 86:16; Psalm 116:16.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

16:1; 20:17; 21:10; 21:10; 21:12; 21:13; 29:24; 29:29; 30:3; 30:3; 30:4; 31:33; 31:33

Exodus

2:5; 20:10; 20:17; 21:7; 21:20; 21:26; 21:27; 21:32; 23:12

Leviticus

25:6; 25:44

Deuteronomy

5:14; 5:18; 12:12; 12:18; 15:17; 16:11; 16:14

Judges

9:18; 19:19

Ruth

2:13; 3:9

1 Samuel

1:11; 1:16; 1:18; 25:24; 25:25; 25:27; 25:28; 25:31; 25:41

2 Samuel

6:20; 6:20; 6:20; 6:22; 6:22; 6:22; 14:6; 14:7; 14:12; 14:15; 14:15; 14:16; 14:17; 14:19; 20:17

1 Kings

1:13; 1:17; 3:20

Ezra

2:65

Nehemiah

7:67

Job

19:5; 19:15; 19:15; 31:13

Psalms

86:16; 116:16

Nahum

2:8

H519

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H519 matches the Hebrew אָמָה ('āmâ),
which occurs 56 times in 49 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife and his handmaids, and they bore children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son -- with Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: in all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13 - But also the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two handmaids' tents, and found nothing; and he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the river; and her maids went along by the river's side. And she saw the ark in the midst of the sedge, and sent her handmaid and fetched it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy bondman, nor thy handmaid, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17 - Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not desire thy neighbour's wife, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 - And if a man shall sell his daughter as a handmaid, she shall not go out as the bondmen go out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20 - And if a man strike his bondman or his handmaid with a staff, and he die under his hand, he shall certainly be avenged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid, and it be marred, he shall let him go for his eye.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - And if he knock out his bondman's tooth or his handmaid's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32 - If the ox gore a bondman or a handmaid, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - -- Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you, for thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44 - And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have -- of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy bondman, nor thy handmaid, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy sojourner that is within thy gates; that thy bondman and thy handmaid may rest as well as thou.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21 - Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your bondmen, and your handmaids, and the Levite that is within your gates; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18 - but before Jehovah thy God shalt thou eat them in the place which Jehovah thy God will choose, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God in all the business of thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:17 - then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door; and he shall be thy bondman for ever. And also unto thy handmaid thou shalt do likewise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow that are in thy midst in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14 - And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in thy gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - but ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your brother;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19 - And we have both straw and provender for our asses; and I have bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man with thy servants: there is no lack of anything.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:9 - And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth, thy handmaid: spread thy skirt over thy handmaid; for thou hast the right of redemption.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - And she vowed a vow, and said, O Jehovah of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but wilt give unto thy handmaid a man child, then I will give him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:16 - Take not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my grief and provocation have I spoken hitherto.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24 - and fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let the iniquity be; but let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear the words of thy handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25 - Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I thy handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28 - I pray thee, forgive the transgression of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a lasting house; because my lord fights the battles of Jehovah, and evil has not been found in thee all thy days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31 - that this shall be no stumbling-block to thee, nor offence of heart for my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall deal well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:41 - And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thy handmaid be a bondwoman to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:20 - And David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How honourable did the king of Israel make himself to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the lewd fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:22 - And I will make myself yet more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight; and of the handmaids that thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - And now that I am come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy bondmaid said, I will now speak to the king; perhaps the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17 - And he came near to her; and the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he said, I am he. And she said to him, Listen to the words of thy handmaid. And he said, I am listening.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - Go and get thee in to king David, and say to him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear to thy handmaid saying, Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:17 - And she said to him, My lord, thou hast sworn by Jehovah thy God to thy handmaid, saying, Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:65

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:65 - besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:67

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:67 - besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five singing-men and singing-women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:13 - If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 86:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:16 - Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:16 - Yea, Jehovah! for I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7 - And it is decreed: she shall be uncovered, she shall be led away, and her maids shall moan as with the voice of doves, drumming upon their breasts.
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