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H0519אָמָהa.mah

maidservantPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 7
  2. 9
  3. 3
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. 8
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. 2
  8. 2
  9. 10
  10. 5
  11. 3
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. 1
  16. 1
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 2
  19. 2
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. Isaiah: 0
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. 1
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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56 occurrences in 49 verses

With their references and text in World English Bible.

  1. Judges 19:19

    Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.

    וְלַֽאֲמָתֶ֔ךָ (אֲמָתֶ֔) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”

  2. Ruth 3:9

    He said, Who are you? She answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.

    אֲמָתֶ֔ךָ (אֲמָתֶ֔) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”אֲמָ֣תְךָ֔ (אֲמָ֣תְ) 'a.Ma.te. “maidservant”

  3. 1 Samuel 1:11

    She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.

    אֲמָתֶ֗ךָ (אֲמָתֶ֗) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”אֲמָתֶ֔ךָ (אֲמָתֶ֔) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”לַאֲמָתְךָ֖ (אֲמָתְ) 'a.ma.te. “maidservant of”

  4. 1 Samuel 1:16

    Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.

    אֲמָ֣תְךָ֔ (אֲמָ֣תְ) 'a.Ma.te. “maidservant”

  5. 1 Samuel 25:24

    She fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid.

    אֲמָֽתְךָ֙ (אֲמָֽתְ) 'a.ma.te. “maidservant”אֲמָתֶֽךָ׃ (אֲמָתֶֽ) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”

  6. 1 Samuel 25:25

    Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you did send.

    אֲמָ֣תְךָ֔ (אֲמָ֣תְ) 'a.Ma.te. “maidservant”

  7. 1 Samuel 25:28

    Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be found in you all your days.

    אֲמָתֶ֑ךָ (אֲמָתֶ֑) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”

  8. 1 Samuel 25:31

    that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.

    אֲמָתֶֽךָ׃ (אֲמָתֶֽ) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”

  9. 1 Samuel 25:41

    She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

    אֲמָֽתְךָ֙ (אֲמָֽתְ) 'a.ma.te. “maidservant”

  10. 2 Samuel 6:20

    Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

    אַמְה֣וֹת 'am.Hot “[the] maidservants of”

  11. 2 Samuel 6:22

    I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight: but of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, they shall honor me.

    הָֽאֲמָהוֹת֙ (אֲמָהוֹת֙) 'a.ma.hOt “maidservants”

  12. 2 Samuel 14:15

    Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

    אֲמָתֽוֹ׃ (אֲמָתֽ) 'a.ma.T “maidservant”

  13. 2 Samuel 14:16

    For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

    אֲמָת֖וֹ (אֲמָת֖) 'a.ma.T “maidservant”

  14. 2 Samuel 20:17

    He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He answered, I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. He answered, I do hear.

    אֲמָתֶ֔ךָ (אֲמָתֶ֔) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”

  15. 1 Kings 1:13

    Go and get you in to king David, and tell him, Didn't you, my lord, king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?

    לַאֲמָֽתְךָ֙ (אֲמָֽתְ) 'a.ma.te. “maidservant”

  16. 1 Kings 1:17

    She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, [supplied: saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.

    לַֽאֲמָתֶ֔ךָ (אֲמָתֶ֔) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”

  17. 1 Kings 3:20

    She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

    וַאֲמָֽתְךָ֙ (אֲמָֽתְ) 'a.ma.te. “maidservant”

  18. Ezra 2:65

    besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

    וְאַמְהֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ (אַמְהֹֽתֵי) 'am.ho.tei. “female servants”

  19. Nehemiah 7:67

    besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.

    וְאַמְהֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ (אַמְהֹֽתֵי) 'am.ho.tei. “female servants”

  20. Job 19:15

    Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

    וְ֭אַמְהֹתַי (אַמְהֹתַ) 'am.ho.ta “female servants”

  21. Job 31:13

    "If I have despised the cause of my man-servant Or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

    וַאֲמָתִ֑י (אֲמָתִ֑) 'a.ma.T “female servant”

  22. Psalms 86:16

    Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.

    אֲמָתֶֽךָ׃ (אֲמָתֶֽ) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”

  23. Psalms 116:16

    Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

    אֲמָתֶ֑ךָ (אֲמָתֶ֑) 'a.ma.Te. “maidservant”

  24. Nahum 2:7

    It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

    וְאַמְהֹתֶ֗יהָ (אַמְהֹתֶ֗י) 'am.ho.Tei. “maidservants”