שִׁפְחָה
shiph.chah
“maidservant”
Definition
a female slave (as a member of the household)
feminine from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see H4940 (מִשְׁפָּחָה));
- maid, maid-servant, slavegirl 1a) maid, maid-servant (as belonging to a mistress) 1b) of address, speaker, humility (fig)
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
שִׁפְחָה appears 55 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began eating again, and her face was no longer downcast.
Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher.These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
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