TBESH · H0519
אָמָה · a.mah · maidservant
1) maid-servant, female slave, maid, handmaid, concubine 1a) of humility (fig.)
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a.mah H519
אָמָה (a.mah) means “maidservant” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
אָמָה Hebrew · H519 56 tagged occurrences in 49 verses
Pronunciation guide: aw-maw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
apparently a primitive word; a maidservant or female slave
KJV glosses: (hand-) bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant).
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How translators render H519
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and maidservants | 8 |
| or maidservant | 5 |
| your servant | 5 |
| maidservant | 4 |
| of your maidservant | 4 |
| and maidservant | 2 |
| of his maidservant | 2 |
| of your servant | 2 |
| to your maidservant | 2 |
| and his maidservants | 1 |
| and the maidservant | 1 |
| and your maidservant | 1 |
| as a servant | 1 |
| her | 1 |
| her maidservant | 1 |
| her maidservants | 1 |
| his maidservant | 1 |
| is my maidservant | 1 |
| let your servant | 1 |
| maidservants | 1 |
| me | 1 |
| of the maidservants | 1 |
| of the slave womans | 1 |
| slave woman | 1 |
| the maidservants | 1 |
| the slave womans | 1 |
| while | 1 |
| your maidservant | 1 |
| your servants | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of thine handmaid | 5 |
| and thy maidservant | 4 |
| thine handmaid | 4 |
| unto thine handmaid | 3 |
| nor thy maidservant | 2 |
| also for me and for thy handmaid | 1 |
| and also unto thy maidservant | 1 |
| and because of thy bondwoman | 1 |
| and bondmaids | 1 |
| and for thy maid | 1 |
| and her maids | 1 |
| and his maidservants | 1 |
| and let thine handmaid | 1 |
| and my maids | 1 |
| and of the maidservants | 1 |
| and their maids | 1 |
| and their maidservants | 1 |
| and thy bondmaids | 1 |
| and your maidservants | 1 |
| behold my maid | 1 |
| her maid | 1 |
| his handmaid | 1 |
| maidservants | 1 |
| me while thine handmaid | 1 |
| nor his maidservant | 1 |
| not thine handmaid | 1 |
| of his handmaid | 1 |
| of his maid | 1 |
| of his maidservant | 1 |
| of the bondwoman | 1 |
| of the handmaids | 1 |
| of this bondwoman | 1 |
| of thy handmaid | 1 |
| or a maidservant | 1 |
| or his maid | 1 |
| or his maidservant | 1 |
| or his maidservants | 1 |
| or of my maidservant | 1 |
| over thine handmaid | 1 |
| this bondwoman | 1 |
| to be a maidservant | 1 |
| with him but i thine handmaid | 1 |
Verses containing H519
Page 1 of 1. 49 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 20:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—
Read word by word - Genesis 21:10
· BSB · 2 occurrences
and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
Read word by word - Genesis 21:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
Read word by word - Genesis 21:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
Read word by word - Genesis 30:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
Read word by word - Genesis 31:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
Read word by word - Exodus 2:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
Read word by word - Exodus 20:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
Read word by word - Exodus 20:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Read word by word - Exodus 21:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.
Read word by word - Exodus 21:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.
Read word by word - Exodus 21:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.
Read word by word - Exodus 21:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
Read word by word - Exodus 21:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If the ox gores a manservant or maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.
Read word by word - Exodus 23:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
Read word by word - Leviticus 25:44
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 5:14
· BSB · 2 occurrences
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 5:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 12:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 15:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 16:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
Read word by word - Judges 9:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—
Read word by word - Judges 19:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
Read word by word - Ruth 3:9
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, for you are a kinsman-redeemer.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 1:11
· BSB · 3 occurrences
And she made a vow, saying, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 1:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not take your servant for a wicked woman, for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:24
· BSB · 2 occurrences
She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your servant.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:41
· BSB · 1 occurrence
She arose, bowed facedown, and said, “Here is your servant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 6:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 6:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 20:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When he had come near to her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he replied. “Listen to the words of your servant,” she said. “I am listening,” he answered.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 1:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’
Read word by word - 1 Kings 1:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’
Read word by word - 1 Kings 3:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
Read word by word - Ezra 2:65
· BSB · 1 occurrence
in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.
Read word by word - Nehemiah 7:67
· BSB · 1 occurrence
in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.
Read word by word - Job 19:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
Read word by word - Job 31:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
Read word by word - Psalms 86:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.
Read word by word - Psalms 116:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.
Read word by word - Nahum 2:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.8