Genesis 16:4
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
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Mistress
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Nahum 3:4
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
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גְּבֶרֶת
gᵉbereth · gheb-eh'-reth
7 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
mistress
Strong's KJV usage: lady, mistress.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 16:4Strong's last: Isaiah 24:2
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baʻălâh · bah-al-aw'
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a mistress
Strong's KJV usage: that hath, mistress.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 17:17Strong's last: Nahum 3:4
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H1404
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
H1404
And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
H1404
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
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mistress
MIS'TRESS, noun [Latin magistra.]
1. A woman who governs; correlative to servant, slave, or subject.
My mistress here lies murdered in her bed.
2. The female head of a family.
3. That which governs; a sovereign. Rome was mistress of the world.
4. One that commands, or has possession and sovereignty. The queen is mistress of the Indies.
5. A female who is well skilled in any thing; as, she is mistress of arithmetic.
6. A woman teacher; an instructress of a school.
7. A woman beloved and courted.
8. A woman in keeping for lewd purposes.
9. A term of contemptuous address.
MIS'TRESS, verb transitive To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
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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