--- title: אָמָה — maid · The Tanakh dictionary description: אָמָה (519), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 56 times: maid. BDB 1906: n.f. maid, handmaid. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/519.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-5.md)‎ / אָמָה‎ # אָמָה «אָמָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **maid** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 56 times · **Key:** 519 · **BDB:** אָמָה ### Glosses maidservant (16); your.female (9); your.maidservant (6) ### Meaning (OSHB) maid [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/519/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.f. maid, handmaid [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/519/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.f. maid, handmaid (Ph. אמת, Arabic أَمَةٌ, Sab. אמת in n.pr. Sab.Denkm.20, Aramaic ܐܰܡܬܳܐ Assyrian amtu ZimBP 67)—א׳ abs. Gn 21:10 +; sf. אֲמָתִי Gn 30:3 +, etc.; pl. abs. אֲמָהֹת Gn 31:33 2 S 6:22; cstr. אַמְהוֹת 2 S 6:20; אַמְהֹתַי Jb 19:15 etc.—maid, handmaid. lit. maidservant (= שִׁפְחָה q.v., wh. however sometimes more servile; rarely P in Hex) Gn 30:3; 31:33 (‖ שִׁפְחָה 29:24, 29 P 30:4 f. J etc.) Ex 2:5 (all E); 2 S 6:20, 22 Jb 19:15 Na 2:8 (sf. refers to mistress, except Jb 19:15 cf. 2 S 6:20, 22); in legisl. (‖ עֶבֶד) Ex 20:10, 17; 21:20, 26, 27, 32 (all E) Lv 25:6, 44(×2) (H) Dt 5:14(×2), 18; 12:12, 18; 15:17 (cf. v. 12) 16:11, 14; cf. also Jb 31:13 Ezr 2:65 Ne 7:67; applied to concubine (sf. of master) Gn 20:17; 21:12 Ex 23:12 (all E) Ju 9:18; 19:19; also Gn 21:10(×2), 13 (16:1 f. P שִׁפְחָה q.v.) Ex 21:7 (all E), vid. on this StaGesch. i. p. 380. fig. in address, אֲמָֽתְךָ etc., referring to speaker, in token of humility; Ru 3:9(×2) (‖ שׁפחה 2:13) 1 S 1:16 (‖ id. v 18) 25:24(×2), 25, 28, 31, 41 (‖ id. v 27) 2 S 14:15, 16 (‖ id. v 6, 7, 12, 15, 17, 19); 20:17; 1 K 1:13, 17; 3:20; in addressing God (never שׁפחה) 1 S 1:11(×3), cf. בֶּן־א׳ ψ 86:16; 116:16. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 46 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «אָמָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/519/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Job 31:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.13/) אִם־אֶמְאַ֗ס מִשְׁפַּ֣ט עַ֭בְדִּי וַאֲמָתִ֑י בְּ֝רִבָ֗ם עִמָּדִֽי׃ *Word for word:* if I.rejected the.cause my.male.servant my and my.female servant in complaint their with me *JPS 1917:* If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me — [Genesis 21:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.13/) וְגַ֥ם אֶת־בֶּן־הָאָמָ֖ה לְג֣וֹי אֲשִׂימֶ֑נּוּ כִּ֥י זַרְעֲךָ֖ הֽוּא׃ *Word for word:* and also (et) the.son of the.slave.woman into a.nation I will.make.him (dm) offspring \[is\].your he *JPS 1917:* And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.' - ← previous: [אַמָּה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4965.md) - next →: [אַמָּה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/520.md) - ↑ back to [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-5.md)