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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 - Avraham prayed to God. God healed Avimelekh, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - Therefore she said to Avraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with Yitzchak."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - God said to Avraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Yitzchak will your seed be called.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13 - Also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is your seed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - Lavan went into Ya`akov's tent, into Le'ah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Le'ah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Par`oh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a Shabbat to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17 - "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 - "If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20 - "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32 - If the bull gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - The Shabbat of the land shall be for food for you; for you, and for your servant and for your maid, and for your hired servant and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44 - As for your bondservants, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall you buy bondservants and bondmaids.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a Shabbat to the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21 - "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18 - but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hand to.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:17 - then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14 - and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Avimelekh, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shekhem, because he is your brother);

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19 - Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:9 - He said, Who are you? She answered, I am Rut your handmaid: spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - She vowed a vow, and said, the LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:16 - Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24 - She fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25 - Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Naval; for as his name is, so is he; Naval is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you did send.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28 - Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD; and evil shall not be found in you all your days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31 - that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:41 - She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the eretz, and said, Behold, your handmaid is a servant 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 - Then David returned to bless his household. Mikhal the daughter of Sha'ul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Yisra'el today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:22 - I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight: but of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, they shall honor me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who 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 - He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Yo'av? He answered, I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. He answered, I do hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Shlomo your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adoniyahu reign?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:17 - She said to him, My lord, you swore by the LORD your God to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Shlomo your 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 - She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:65

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for 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 man-servant Or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 86:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:16 - Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:16 - LORD, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7 - It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
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