אָמָהʼâmâh

maid, handmaid

Pronunciation: aw-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H519

Meanings

1. literally maidservant (Genesis 30:3; Genesis 31:33; Genesis 29:24)

2. figurative in address (Ruth 3:9; Ruth 2:13; 1 Samuel 1:16)

Where it appears

Appears 56 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 20:17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, so they could have children.
  • Genesis 21:10 So she turned to Abraham and demanded, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son. He is not going to share the inheritance with my son, Isaac. I won’t have it!”
  • Genesis 21:12 But God told Abraham, “Do not be upset over the boy and your servant. Do whatever Sarah tells you, for Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.
  • Genesis 21:13 But I will also make a nation of the descendants of Hagar’s son because he is your son, too.”
  • Genesis 30:3 Then Rachel told him, “Take my maid, Bilhah, and sleep with her. She will bear children for me, and through her I can have a family, too.”
  • Genesis 31:33 Laban went first into Jacob’s tent to search there, then into Leah’s, and then the tents of the two servant wives—but he found nothing. Finally, he went into Rachel’s tent.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).