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Lexicon :: Strong's H519 - 'āmâ

Aa
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 BoxGen 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13 - And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:17 - Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 - And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20 - If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 - If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32 - If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44 - But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21 - Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18 - But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:17 - Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14 - You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19 - But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:9 - And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:16 - Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24 - And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25 - Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28 - And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31 - Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:41 - And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:20 - Then David came back to give a blessing to his family. And Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to him and said, How full of glory was the king of Israel today, who let himself be seen uncovered by his servant-girls like a foolish person uncovering himself without shame!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:22 - And I will do even worse than this, and make myself even lower in your eyes: but the servant-girls of whom you were talking will give me honour.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17 - And he came near, and the woman said, Are you Joab? And he said in answer, I am. Then she said, Give ear to your servant's words. And he said, I am giving ear.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - Come now, go to King David and say to him, Did you not, O my lord, take an oath to me, your servant, saying, Truly Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom? why then is Adonijah acting as king?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:17 - And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:65

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:65 - As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:67

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:67 - As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:13 - If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:16 - O be turned to me and have mercy on me: give your strength to your servant, and your salvation to the son of her who is your servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:16 - O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7 - And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
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