H8198Noun, feminine63 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
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- Genesis 12:16וּשְׁפָחֹת
He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
- Ruth 2:13שִׁפְחָתֶךָ
“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
- 1 Samuel 1:18שִׁפְחָתְךָ
“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began to eat, and her face was no longer downcast.
- 2 Samuel 14:6וּלְשִׁפְחָתְךָ
And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
- 2 Kings 4:2לְשִׁפְחָתְךָ
“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
- Jeremiah 34:9שִׁפְחָתוֹ
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.