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STRONGS NUMBER H8198
Transliteration: shiphchah
Phonetic Spelling: (shif-khaw')
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Short Definition: maid, maidservant
Meaning: maid, maidservant
Word Summary
shiphchah: maid, maidservant
Original Word: שִׁפְחָהTransliteration: shiphchah
Phonetic Spelling: (shif-khaw')
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Short Definition: maid, maidservant
Meaning: maid, maidservant
Strong's Concordance
handmaiden, bondwoman, woman-servant Feminine from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see mishpachah); a female slave (as a member of the household) -- (bond-, hand-)maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.
see HEBREW mishpachah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8198. shiphchah
שִׁפְחָה noun feminine maid, maid-servant (synonym אָמָה, q. v.; originally = concubine ? compare √); — absolute ׳שׁ Genesis 16:1 +; construct שִׁפְחַת 16:2 +; suffix שִׁפְחָתִי 16:2 +, etc.; plural absolute שְׁפָחוֺת 12:16 +; suffix שִׁפְחֹתֶ֑ךָ Ruth 2:13, etc.; —
1 literally, maid, maid-servant, as belonging to a mistress Genesis 16:1, 3, 6, 8 (PJ) 29:24; 29:29 (P) Psalm 123:2; Proverbs 30:23; Isaiah 24:2; even where concubine of master (compare אָמָה) Genesis 16:2, 5 (PJ) 25:12; 35:25-26, (P) 30:4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 18 (all J E); less often reference to master 29:24, 29 (J), Ruth 2:13, of concubine Genesis 32:23, compare 33:1-2, 6 (all J); marriageable Leviticus 19:20 (H, compare Exodus 11:5; not elsewhere in legisl.); in General, especially of menial service (never אָמָה) 11:5 (J) 1 Samuel 25:41 (opposed to אָמָה) 2 Samuel 17:17 ("" עֶבֶד) Genesis 12:16; 24:35(J) 20:14 (E) 30:43 (P) 32:6 (J; collective) Deuteronomy 28:68; 1 Samuel 8:16; 2 Kings 5:26; Isaiah 14:2; Jeremiah 34:9-10, 11 (twice in verse); 34:16 (twice in verse); Joel 3:2; Ecclesiastes 2:7; 2 Chronicles 28:10; Esther 7:4.
2 figurative in address, שִׁפְחָֽתְךָ, etc., of speaker, in token of humility (see אָמָה) Ruth 2:13 ("" אָמָה 3:9), 1 Samuel 1:18 ("" id. 1:16), 25:27, ("" 25:24f.), 28:21-22, 2 Samuel 14:6-7, 12 (twice in verse); 14:15, 17, 19; ("" אָמָה 14:15; 14:16); 2 Kings 4:2, 16; not toward God; but see אָמָה.