παιδίσκη
paidiskē
“maidservant”
Definition
a girl, i.e. (specially), a female slave or servant
feminine diminutive of G3816 (παῖς);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
παιδίσκη appears 12 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
He knocked at the outer gate, and a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
At this, the servant girl watching the door said to Peter, “Aren’t you also one of this man’s disciples?”“I am not,” he answered.
A servant girl saw him seated in the firelight and looked intently at him. “This man also was with Him,” she said.
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