Genesis 30:18
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
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Maiden
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Luke 8:51
And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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נַעֲרָה
naʻărâh · nah-ar-aw'
3 times translated as this KJV form62 total Strong's occurrences
a girl (from infancy to adolescence)
Strong's KJV usage: damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Esther 2:4Strong's last: Esther 2:13
Open full H5291 profile →בְּתוּלָה
bᵉthûwlâh · beth-oo-law'
2 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state
Strong's KJV usage: maid, virgin.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 19:24Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 36:17
Open full H1330 profile →שִׁפְחָה
shiphchâh · shif-khaw'
2 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 30:18Strong's last: Psalms 123:2
Open full H8198 profile →παῖς
paîs · paheece
1 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
a boy (as often beaten with impunity), or (by analogy), a girl, and (genitive case) a child; specially, a slave or servant (especially a minister to a king; and by eminence to God)
Strong's KJV usage: :--child, maid(-en), (man) servant, son, young man.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 8:51Strong's last: Luke 8:51
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H8198
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
H1330
Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
H1330
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
H5291
And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
H5291
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
H5291
Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.
H8198
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
G3816
And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.
English meaning and historical usage.
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maiden
MA'IDEN, noun
1. An unmarried woman, or a young unmarried woman; a virgin.
2. A female servant.
3. It is used in composition, to express the feminine gender, as in maid-servant.
MA'IDEN, noun A maid; also, an instrument for beheading criminals, and another for washing linen.
MA'IDEN, adjective Pertaining to a young woman or virgin; as maiden charms.
1. Consisting of young women or virgins.
Amid the maiden throng.
2. Fresh; new; unused.
He fleshed his maiden sword.
MA'IDEN, verb intransitive To speak and act demurely or modestly.
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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