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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
Dictionary Aids

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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 - Then Abraham H85 prayed H6419 to God H430, and God H430 healed H7495 Abimelech H40 and his wife H802 and his female H519 slaves H519, so that they gave H3205 birth H3205 to children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - Therefore she said H559 to Abraham H85, “Drive H1644 out H1644 this H2088 slave H519 woman H519 and her son H1121, for the son H1121 of this H2088 slave H519 woman H519 shall not be H3423 an H3423 heir H3423 with my son H1121 [fn]Isaac H3327!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God H430 said H559 to Abraham H85, “[fn]Do not be distressed H7489 because H5921 of the boy H5288 and your slave H519 woman H519; whatever H3605 H834 Sarah H8283 tells H559 you, listen H8085 to her, for through H4480 Isaac H3327 [fn]your descendants H2233 shall be named H7121.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13 - “And of the son H1121 of the slave H519 woman H519 I will make H7760 a nation H1471 also H1571, because H3588 he is your [fn]descendant H2233.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - Then she said H559, “Here H2009 is my female H519 slave H519 Bilhah H1090: have H935 relations H935 with H935 her that she may give H3205 birth H3205 [fn]on my knees H1290, so that [fn]by her I too H1571 may obtain H1129 a child H1129.”

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So Laban H3837 went H935 into Jacob’s H3290 tent H168, and into Leah’s H3812 tent H168, and into the tent H168 of the two H8147 slave H519 women H519, but he did not find H4672 them. Then he went H3318 out H3318 of Leah’s H3812 tent H168 and entered H935 Rachel’s H7354 tent H168.

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Now the daughter H1323 of Pharaoh H6547 came H3381 down H3381 to bathe H7364 at the Nile H2975, with her female H5291 attendants H5291 walking H1980 alongside H5921 H3027 the Nile H2975; and she saw H7200 the [fn]basket H8392 among H8432 the reeds H5488 and sent H7971 her slave H519 woman H519, and she brought H3947 it to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh H7637 day H3117 is a Sabbath H7676 of the LORD H3068 your God H430; on it you shall not do H6213 any H3605 work H4399, you, or your son H1121, or your daughter H1323, your male H5650 slave H5650 or your female H519 slave H519, or your cattle H929, or your [fn]resident H1616 who H834 [fn]stays with you.

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“You shall not covet H2530 your neighbor’s H7453 house H1004; you shall not covet H2530 your neighbor’s H7453 wife H802, or his male H5650 slave H5650, or his female H519 slave H519, or his ox H7794, or his donkey H2543, or anything H3605 that belongs to your neighbor H7453.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:7 -

“Now if H3588 a man H376 sells H4376 his daughter H1323 as a female H519 slave H519, she is not to [fn]go H3318 free H3318 as the male H5650 slaves H5650 [fn]do H3318.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20 -

“And if H3588 someone H376 strikes H5221 his male H5650 or H176 female H519 slave H519 H5650 with a rod H7626 and the slave dies H4191 [fn]at his hand H3027, he shall [fn]be punished H5358.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:26 -

“And if H3588 someone H376 strikes H5221 the eye H5869 of his male H5650 or H176 female H519 slave H519 H5650 and destroys H7843 it, he shall let [fn]the slave go H7971 free H2670 on H8478 account H8478 of H8478 the eye H5869.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - “And if H518 he [fn]knocks H5307 out H5307 a tooth H8127 of his male H5650 or H176 female H519 slave H519 H5650, he shall let [fn]the slave go H7971 free H2670 on H8478 account H8478 of H8478 the tooth H8127.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32 - “If H518 the ox H7794 gores H5055 a male H5650 or H176 female H519 slave H519 H5650, [fn]the owner shall give H5414 his or her master H113 [fn]thirty H7970 shekels H8255 of silver H3701, and the ox H7794 shall be stoned H5619.

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“For six H8337 days H3117 you are to do H6213 your work H4639, but on the seventh H7637 day H3117 you shall cease H7673 from labor so H4616 that H4616 your ox H7794 and your donkey H2543 may rest H5117, and the son H1121 of your female H519 slave H519, as well as the stranger H1616 residing with you, may refresh H5314 themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - ‘All of you shall have H1961 the Sabbath H7676 produce of the land H776 as food H402; for yourself, your male H5650 and female H519 slaves H519 H5650, and your hired H7916 worker H7916 and your foreign H8453 resident H8453, those who live H1481 as H1481 strangers H1481 among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44 - ‘As for your male H5650 and female H519 slaves H519 H5650 whom H834 you may have H1961—you may acquire H7069 male H5650 and female H519 slaves H519 H5650 from the pagan nations H1471 that are around H5439 you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh H7637 day H3117 is a Sabbath H7676 of the LORD H3068 your God H430; you shall not do H6213 any H3605 work H4399 that day, you or your son H1121 or your daughter H1323, or your male H5650 slave H5650 or your female H519 slave H519, or your ox H7794, your donkey H2543, or any H3605 of your cattle H929, or your [fn]resident H1616 who H834 [fn]stays with you, so H4616 that H4616 your male H5650 slave H5650 and your female H519 slave H519 may rest H5117 as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:21 -

‘You shall not covet H2530 your neighbor’s H7453 wife H802, nor H3808 desire H183 your neighbor’s H7453 house H1004, his field H7704, his male H5650 slave H5650 or his female H519 slave H519, his ox H7794, his donkey H2543, or anything H3605 that belongs to your neighbor H7453.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:12 - “And you shall rejoice H8055 before H6440 the LORD H3068 your God H430, you and your sons H1121 and daughters H1323, your male H5650 and female H519 slaves H5650 H519, and the Levite H3881 who H834 is within your gates H8179, since H3588 he has H369 no H369 portion H2506 or inheritance H5159 with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:18 - “But you shall eat H398 them before H6440 the LORD H3068 your God H430 in the place H4725 which H834 the LORD H3068 your God H430 will choose H977, you and your son H1121 and daughter H1323, and your male H5650 and female H519 slaves H5650 H519, and the Levite H3881 who H834 is within your gates H8179; and you shall rejoice H8055 before H6440 the LORD H3068 your God H430 in all H3605 [fn]your undertakings H3027 H4916.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:17 - then you shall take H3947 an [fn]awl H4836 and pierce H5414 it through his ear H241 into the door H1817, and he shall be your servant H5650 permanently H5769. You shall also H637 do H6213 the same H3651 to your female H519 slave H519.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - and you shall rejoice H8055 before H6440 the LORD H3068 your God H430, you, your son H1121 and your daughter H1323, and your male H5650 and female H519 slaves H5650 H519, and the Levite H3881 who H834 is in your [fn]town H8179, and the stranger H1616, the [fn]orphan H3490, and the widow H490 who H834 are in your midst H7130, at the place H4725 where H834 H8033 the LORD H3068 your God H430 chooses H977 to establish H7931 His name H8034.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14 - and you shall rejoice H8055 in your feast H2282, you, your son H1121 and your daughter H1323, and your male H5650 and female H519 slaves H5650 H519, and the Levite H3881, the stranger H1616, the [fn]orphan H3490, and the widow H490 who H834 are in your [fn]towns H8179.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - but in fact you have risen H6965 against H5921 my father’s H1 house H1004 today H3117 and have killed H2026 his sons H1121, seventy H7657 men H376, on one H259 stone H68, and have made H4427 Abimelech H40, the son H1121 of his female H519 slave H519, king H4427 over H5921 the [fn]leaders H1167 of Shechem H7927, because H3588 he is your relative H251—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19 - “Yet there H3426 is H3426 both H1571 straw H8401 and feed H4554 for our donkeys H2543, and also H1571 bread H3899 and wine H3196 for me, and [fn]your female H519 slave H519, and the young H5288 man H5288 who is with your servants H5650; there H369 is H369 no H369 lack H4270 of anything H3605 H1697.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:9 - So he said H559, “Who H4310 are you?” And she answered H559, “I am Ruth H7327 your slave H519. Now spread H6566 your garment H3671 over H5921 your slave H519, for you are a redeemer H1350.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - And she made H5087 a vow H5088 and said H559, “LORD H3068 of armies H6635, if H518 You will indeed H7200 look H7200 on the affliction H6040 of Your bond-servant H519 and remember H2142 me, and not forget H7911 Your bond-servant H519, but will give H5414 Your bond-servant H519 a [fn]son H2233 H376, then I will give H5414 him to the LORD H3068 all H3605 the days H3117 of his life H2416, and a razor H4177 shall never H3808 come H5927 on his head H7218.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:16 - “Do not [fn]consider H5414 your bond-servant H519 a useless H1100 woman H1323, for I have spoken H1696 until H5704 now H2008 out of my great H7230 concern H7879 and provocation H3708.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24 - She fell H5307 at his feet H7272 and said H559, “On me [fn]alone H589, my lord H113, be the blame H5771. And please H4994 let your slave H519 speak H1696 [fn]to you, and listen H8085 to the words H1697 of your slave H519.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:25 - “Please H4994 do not let my lord H113 [fn]pay H7760 attention H3820 to this H2088 [fn]worthless H1100 man H376, Nabal H5037, for as his name H8034 is, so H3651 is he. [fn]Nabal H5037 is his name H8034, and stupidity H5039 is with him; but I your slave H519 did not see H7200 the young H5288 men H5288 of my lord H113 whom H834 you sent H7971.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28 - “Please H4994 forgive H5375 the offense H6588 of your slave H519; for the LORD H3068 will certainly H6213 make H6213 for my lord H113 an [fn]enduring H539 house H1004, because H3588 my lord H113 is fighting H3898 the battles H4421 of the LORD H3068, and evil H7451 will not be found H4672 in you all H4480 your days H3117.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:31 - this H2088 will not become an obstacle H6330 to you, or a [fn]troubled H4383 heart H3820 to my lord H113, both by having shed H8210 blood H1818 without H2600 cause H2600 and by my lord’s H113 having [fn]avenged H3467 himself. When the LORD H3068 deals H3190 well H3190 with my lord H113, then remember H2142 your slave H519.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:41 - And she got H6965 up H6965 and bowed H2331 with her face H639 to the ground H776, and said H559, “Behold H2009, your slave H519 is a servant H8198 to wash H7364 the feet H7272 of my lord’s H113 servants H5650.”

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But when David H1732 returned H7725 to bless H1288 his own household H1004, Michal H4324 the daughter H1323 of Saul H7586 came H3318 out H3318 to meet H7122 David H1732 and said H559, “How H4100 the king H4428 of Israel H3478 dignified H3513 himself today H3117! For he exposed H1540 himself today H3117 in the sight H5869 of his servants’ H5650 female H519 slaves H519, as one H259 of the rabble H7386 shamelessly H1540 exposes H1540 himself!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:22 - “And I might demean H7043 myself even more H5750 than H4480 this H2088 and be lowly H8217 in my own sight H5869, but with the female H519 slaves H519 of whom H834 you have spoken H559, with them I am to be held H3513 in H3513 honor H3513!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:15 - “Now H6258 then, [fn]the reason H834 I have come H935 to speak H1696 this H2088 word H1697 to my lord H113 the king H4428 is that the people H5971 have made H3372 me afraid H3372; so your servant H8198 said H559, ‘Let me now H4994 speak H1696 to the king H4428, perhaps H194 the king H4428 will perform H6213 the [fn]request H1697 of his slave H519.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:16 - ‘For the king H4428 will listen H8085, to save H5337 his slave H519 from the [fn]hand H3709 of the man H376 who would eliminate H8045 [fn]both H3162 me and my son H1121 from the inheritance H5159 of God H430.’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17 - So he approached H7126 her, and the woman H802 said H559, “Are you Joab H3097?” And he answered H559, “I am.” Then she said H559 to him, “Listen H8085 to the words H1697 of your slave H519.” And he said H559, “I am listening H8085.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - “Go H1980 [fn]at once H935 to King H4428 David H1732 and say H559 to him, ‘Have you not, my lord H113 the king H4428, sworn H7650 to your servant H519, saying H559, “Solomon H8010 your son H1121 certainly H3588 shall be H4427 king H4427 after H310 me, and he shall sit H3427 on my throne H3678”? Why H4069 then has Adonijah H138 become H4427 king H4427?’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:17 - So she said H559 to him, “My lord H113, you yourself H859 swore H7650 to your servant H519 by the LORD H3068 your God H430, saying, ‘Your son H1121 Solomon H8010 certainly H3588 shall be H4427 king H4427 after H310 me, and he shall sit H3427 on my throne H3678.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - “So she got H6965 up H6965 in the middle H8432 of the night H3915 and took H3947 my son H1121 from beside H681 me while your servant H519 was asleep H3463, and she laid H7901 him at her breast H2436, and laid H7901 her dead H4191 son H1121 at my breast H2436.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:65 - besides H4480 H905 their male H5650 and female H519 slaves H5650 H519 [fn]who H428 totaled 7,337 H7651 H505 H7969 H3967 H7970; and they had two H3967 hundred H3967 singing H7891 men and women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:67 - besides H4480 H905 their male H5650 slaves H5650 and their female H519 slaves H519, [fn]of whom H428 there were 7,337 H7651 H505 H7969 H3967 H7970; and they had 245 H3967 H705 H2568 male H7891 and female H7891 singers H7891.

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“Those who live H1481 in my house H1004 and my servant H519 women H519 consider H2803 me a stranger H2114.

I am H1961 a foreigner H5237 in their sight H5869.

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“If H518 I have rejected H3988 the claim H4941 of my male H5650 or female H519 slaves H519 H5650

When they filed H7379 a H7379 complaint H7379 against H5973 me,

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Turn H6437 to me, and be H2603 gracious H2603 to me;

Grant H5414 Your strength H5797 to Your servant H5650,

And save H3467 the son H1121 of Your maidservant H519.

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O H577 LORD H3068, [fn]I surely H3588 am Your slave H5650,

I am Your slave H5650, the son H1121 of Your female H519 slave H519,

You have unfastened H6605 my restraints H4147.

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It is set H5324:

She is stripped H1540, she is led H5927 away H5927,

And her slave H519 women H519 are sobbing H5090 like the sound H6963 of doves H3123,

Beating H8608 their [fn]breasts H3824.

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