Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8198: שִׁפְחָה (shiphchâh) Definition

Strong's number
H8198
Lemma
שִׁפְחָה
Transliteration
shiphchâh
Pronunciation
shif-khaw'
Strong's definition
a female slave (as a member of the household) (bond-, hand-) maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant. feminine from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see H4940 (מִשְׁפָּחָה));

58 instances of the word שִׁפְחָה shiphchâh (H8198)


  • Genesis 32:5 - And I have oxen and asses flocks and menservants and womenservants and I have sent to tell my lord that I may find grace in thy sight

  • Genesis 32:22 - And he rose up that night and took and his two wives and his two womenservants and his eleven sons and passed over the ford Jabbok

  • Genesis 33:1 - lifted up And Jacob his eyes and looked and behold Esau came and with him four hundred men And he divided the children unto Leah and unto Rachel and unto the two handmaids

  • Genesis 33:2 - And he put the handmaids and her children foremost and Leah and her children after and Rachel and Joseph after

  • Genesis 33:6 - came near Then the handmaidens they and their children and they bowed themselves

  • Genesis 35:25 - And the sons of Bilhah handmaid Rachel's Dan and Naphtali

  • Genesis 35:26 - And the sons of Zilpah handmaid Leah's Gad and Asher And the sons of Jacob which were born to him in Padanaram

  • Isaiah 14:2 - shall take And the people them and bring them to their place shall possess and the house of Israel them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids and they shall take them captives and they shall take them captives they were and they shall rule over their oppressors

  • Isaiah 24:2 - And it shall be as with the people so with the priest as with the servant so with his master as with the maid so with her mistress as with the buyer so with the seller as with the lender as with the lender as with the taker of usury so with the giver of usury

  • Jeremiah 34:9 - go That every man should let his manservant That every man his maidservant being an Hebrew being an Hebrew free that none should serve himself of them to wit of a Jew his brother That every man

  • Jeremiah 34:10 - heard Now when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the covenant and let them go and every one should let his manservant and every one his maidservant free that none should serve heard and let them go

  • Jeremiah 34:11 - they turned But afterward they turned and caused the servants and for handmaids whom they had let go free and brought them into subjection and caused the servants and for handmaids

  • Jeremiah 34:16 - But ye turned and polluted my name But ye turned and caused every man his servant and caused every man and for handmaids whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure and brought them into subjection his servant and for handmaids

  • Joel 2:29 - And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit

  • Leviticus 19:20 - And whosoever lieth with a woman carnally that is a bondmaid betrothed And whosoever and not at all and not at all nor freedom given her she shall be scourged they shall not be put to death because she was not free

  • Proverbs 30:23 - For an odious woman when she is married and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress

  • Psalms 123:2 - Behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters Behold as the eyes of a maiden look unto the hand of her mistress Behold as the eyes wait upon the LORD our God until that he have mercy

  • Ruth 2:13 - Then she said Let me find favour in thy sight my lord for that thou hast comforted me and for that thou hast spoken friendly of thine handmaidens though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens