Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
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Handmaid
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Luke 1:38
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
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14 occurrences in 11 verses.
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שִׁפְחָה
shiphchâh · shif-khaw'
22 times translated as this KJV form63 total Strong's occurrences
a female slave (as a member of the household)
Strong's KJV usage: (bond-, hand-) maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 16:1Strong's last: Jeremiah 34:16
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ʼâmâh · aw-maw'
21 times translated as this KJV form55 total Strong's occurrences
a maid-servant or female slave
Strong's KJV usage: (hand-) bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 23:12Strong's last: Psalms 116:16
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doúlē · doo'-lay
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a female slave (involuntarily or voluntarily)
Strong's KJV usage: :--handmaid(-en).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 1:38Strong's last: Luke 1:38
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ʼănîy · an-ee'
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
I
Strong's KJV usage: I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, × which, × who.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 25:24Strong's last: 1 Samuel 25:24
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H8198
And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
H8198
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
H8198
Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
H8198
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
H519
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
H519
For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
H8198
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
H8198
And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
H519
And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
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handmaid
HAND'MAID
HAND'MAIDEN, noun A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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