Lexical Summary amah: a maid, handmaid Original Word: אָמָהTransliteration: amah Phonetic Spelling: (aw-maw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: a maid, handmaid Meaning: a maidservant, female slave Strong's Concordance handmaid, bondwoman, maidservant Apparently a primitive word; a maid-servant or female slave -- (hand-)bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant). Brown-Driver-Briggs H519. amah אָמָה noun feminine maid, handmaid (Phoenician אמת, Arabic , Sabean אמת in proper name SabDenkm20, Aramaic , Assyrian amtu ZimBP 67) — ׳א absolute Genesis 21:10 +; suffix אֲמָתִי 30:3 +, etc.; plural absolute אֲמָהֹת 31:33; 2 Samuel 6:22; construct אַמְהוֺת 6:20; אַמְהֹתַי Job 19:5 etc. — maid, handmaid. 1 literally maidservant (= שִׁפְחָה q. v., where however sometimes more servile; rarely P in Hexateuch) Genesis 30:3; 31:33 ("" שִׁפְחָה 29:24, 29; P 30:4f. J etc.) Exodus 2:5 (all E); 2 Samuel 6:20, 22; Job 19:15; Nahum 2:8 (suffix refers to mistress, except Job 19:15 compare 2 Samuel 6:20, 22); in legisl. ("" עֶבֶד) Exodus 20:10, 17; 21:20, 26, 27, 32 (all E) Leviticus 25:6, 44 (twice in verse) (H) Deuteronomy 5:14 (twice in verse); 5:18; 12:12, 18; 15:17 (compare see 12) 16:11, 14; compare also Job 31:13; Ezra 2:65; Nehemiah 7:67; applied to concubine (suffix of master) Genesis 20:17; 21:12; Exodus 23:12 (all E) Judges 9:18; 19:19; also Genesis 21:10 (twice in verse); 21:13 (16:1f. P שִׁפְחָה q. v.) Exodus 21:7 (all E), see on this StaGesch i: p. 380. 2 figurative in address, אֲמָֽתְךָ etc., referring to speaker, in token of humility; Ruth 3:9 (twice in verse) ("" שׁפחה 2:13) 1 Samuel 1:16 ("" id. 1:18) 25:24 (twice in verse); 25:25, 28, 31, 41 ("" id. 25:27) 2 Samuel 14:15-16, ("" id. 14:6; 14:7; 14:12; 14:15; 14:17; 14:19); 20:17; 1 Kings 1:13, 17; 3:20; in addressing God (never שׁפחה) 1 Samuel 1:11 (3 t. in verse), compare ׳בֶּןאֿ Psalm 86:16; 116:16. |
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