TBESH · H8198
שִׁפְחָה · shiph.chah · maidservant
1) maid, maid-servant, slavegirl 1a) maid, maid-servant (as belonging to a mistress) 1b) of address, speaker, humility (fig)
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shiph.chah H8198
שִׁפְחָה (shiph.chah) means “maidservant” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
שִׁפְחָה Hebrew · H8198 63 tagged occurrences in 58 verses
Pronunciation guide: shif-khaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
feminine from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see H4940 (מִשְׁפָּחָה)); a female slave (as a member of the household)
KJV glosses: (bond-, hand-) maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.
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How translators render H8198
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 | 9 |
| maidservant | 6 |
| maidservants | 6 |
| servant | 4 |
| your maidservant | 4 |
| your servant | 4 |
| her servant | 2 |
| his servant girl | 2 |
| my maidservant | 2 |
| again | 1 |
| and a maidservant | 1 |
| and female slaves | 1 |
| and now your servant | 1 |
| and women | 1 |
| and your maidservant | 1 |
| as her maidservant | 1 |
| maid | 1 |
| may your maidservant | 1 |
| may your servant | 1 |
| my servant | 1 |
| of a maidservant | 1 |
| of the servant girl | 1 |
| of your servant girls | 1 |
| ready to serve | 1 |
| the maidservants | 1 |
| then the maidservants | 1 |
| to your maidservant | 1 |
| to your servant | 1 |
| where a servant girl | 1 |
| with a slave girl | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and maidservants | 4 |
| maid | 4 |
| and bondwomen | 3 |
| handmaid | 3 |
| and for handmaids | 2 |
| and thy handmaid | 2 |
| and womenservants | 2 |
| her maid | 2 |
| his handmaid | 2 |
| his maidservant | 2 |
| let thine handmaid | 2 |
| of thine handmaid | 2 |
| unto thine handmaid | 2 |
| a bondmaid | 1 |
| a servant | 1 |
| against thine handmaid | 1 |
| an handmaid | 1 |
| and a wench | 1 |
| and an handmaid | 1 |
| and handmaids | 1 |
| and maidens | 1 |
| and she had an handmaid | 1 |
| and the handmaids | 1 |
| and upon the handmaids | 1 |
| and your maidservants | 1 |
| as with the maid | 1 |
| behold thy maid | 1 |
| handmaids | 1 |
| her handmaid | 1 |
| his maid | 1 |
| my maid | 1 |
| my maiden | 1 |
| of a maiden | 1 |
| of the maidservant | 1 |
| of thine handmaidens | 1 |
| the handmaids | 1 |
| then the handmaidens | 1 |
| then thine handmaid | 1 |
| thine handmaid | 1 |
| to be her maid | 1 |
| unto him behold thine handmaid | 1 |
| unto my maid | 1 |
| which thine handmaid | 1 |
| womenservants | 1 |
Verses containing H8198
Page 1 of 2. 58 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 12:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
Read word by word - Genesis 16:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
Read word by word - Genesis 16:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Read word by word - Genesis 16:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
Read word by word - Genesis 16:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
Read word by word - Genesis 16:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
Read word by word - Genesis 16:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
Read word by word - Genesis 20:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Abimelech brought sheep and cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him.
Read word by word - Genesis 24:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
Read word by word - Genesis 25:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
Read word by word - Genesis 29:24
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
Read word by word - Genesis 29:29
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
Read word by word - Genesis 30:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
Read word by word - Genesis 30:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
Read word by word - Genesis 30:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
Read word by word - Genesis 30:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
Read word by word - Genesis 30:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
Read word by word - Genesis 30:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
Read word by word - Genesis 30:43
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.
Read word by word - Genesis 32:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.6
- Genesis 32:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.23
- Genesis 33:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
Read word by word - Genesis 33:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Read word by word - Genesis 33:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
Read word by word - Genesis 35:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
Read word by word - Genesis 35:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
Read word by word - Exodus 11:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
Read word by word - Leviticus 19:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:68
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
Read word by word - Ruth 2:13
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 1:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began to eat, and her face was no longer downcast.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 8:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.
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 - 1 Samuel 28:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the woman came to Saul and saw how distraught he was, she said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed your voice. I took my life in my hands and did as you told me.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 28:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
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 14:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 17:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, for they dared not be seen entering the city.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 4:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
Read word by word - 2 Kings 5:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 28:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
Read word by word - Esther 7:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
Read word by word - Psalms 123:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
Read word by word - Proverbs 30:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
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