# אָמָה (amah)

Israeli respelling: a-mah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H519. 49 Old Testament occurrences.

a maidservant or female slave

King James renderings: (hand-) bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/amah-h519

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/17) — So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
- [Genesis 21:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/10) — Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even wit…
- [Genesis 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/12) — And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath sai…
- [Genesis 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/13) — And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
- [Genesis 30:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/3) — And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
- [Genesis 31:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/33) — And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Le…
- [Exodus 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/5) — And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the…
- [Exodus 20:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/20/10) — But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manserva…
- [Exodus 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/20/17) — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,…
- [Exodus 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/7) — And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
- [Exodus 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/20) — And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
- [Exodus 21:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/26) — And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
- [Exodus 21:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/27) — And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
- [Exodus 21:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/32) — If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
- [Exodus 23:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/12) — Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid,…
- [Leviticus 25:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/6) — And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy…
- [Leviticus 25:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/44) — Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen…
- [Deuteronomy 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/14) — But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy mans…
- [Deuteronomy 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/21) — Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidse…
- [Deuteronomy 12:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/12) — And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the…
- [Deuteronomy 12:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/18) — But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and t…
- [Deuteronomy 15:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/17) — Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidserva…
- [Deuteronomy 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/11) — And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levit…
- [Deuteronomy 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/14) — And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stra…
- [Judges 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/18) — And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made…
- [Judges 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/19) — Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man w…
- [Ruth 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/3/9) — And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near…
- [1 Samuel 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/1/11) — And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forg…
- [1 Samuel 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/1/16) — Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
- [1 Samuel 25:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/24) — And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audienc…
- [1 Samuel 25:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/25) — Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him…
- [1 Samuel 25:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/28) — I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the ba…
- [1 Samuel 25:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/31) — That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath…
- [1 Samuel 25:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/41) — And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servan…
- [2 Samuel 6:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/6/20) — Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of…
- [2 Samuel 6:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/6/22) — And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall…
- [2 Samuel 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/15) — Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid s…
- [2 Samuel 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/16) — For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance…
- [2 Samuel 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/20/17) — And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thin…
- [1 Kings 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/13) — Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon…
- [1 Kings 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/17) — And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after m…
- [1 Kings 3:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/3/20) — And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in…
- [Ezra 2:65](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/65) — Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hund…
- [Nehemiah 7:67](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/67) — Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred…
- [Job 19:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/15) — They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
- [Job 31:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/13) — If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
- [Psalms 86:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/86/16) — O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
- [Psalms 116:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/116/16) — O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
- [Nahum 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/7) — And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their…