H8198 שִׁפְחָה (shif-khaw')

KJV renderings

(bond-, hand-) maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.

Strong's definition

a female slave (as a member of the household)

Derivation

feminine from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see H4940 (מִשְׁפָּחָה));

From James Strong's public-domain dictionaries (H), JSON edition by OpenScriptures (CC-BY-SA). Every dotted-underline word in the text links here.

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