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 2 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.
- Ecclesiastes 2:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,
Read word by word - Isaiah 14:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
Read word by word - Isaiah 24:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:11
· BSB · 2 occurrences
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 34:16
· BSB · 2 occurrences
But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
Read word by word - Joel 2:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 3.2