- Original: אמה
- Transliteration: 'amah
- Phonetic: aw-maw'
- Definition: 
1. maid-servant, female slave, maid, handmaid, concubine 
a. of humility (fig.) 
- Origin: apparently a primitive word
- TWOT entry: 112
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine 
- Strong's: Apparently a primitive word; a maidservant or female slave: - (hand-) bondmaid (-woman6) maid (-servant). 
Total KJV Occurrences: 56 
 • bondmaids, 2
 
Leviticus 25:44(2) 
 
 • bondwoman, 4
 
Genesis 21:10(2); 
Genesis 21:12; 
Genesis 21:13 
 
 • handmaid, 22
 
Exodus 23:12; 
Judges 19:19; 
Ruth 3:9(2); 
1 Samuel 1:11(3); 
1 Samuel 1:16; 
1 Samuel 25:24(2); 
1 Samuel 25:25; 
1 Samuel 25:28; 
1 Samuel 25:31; 
1 Samuel 25:41; 
2 Samuel 14:15; 
2 Samuel 14:16; 
2 Samuel 20:17; 
1 Kings 1:13; 
1 Kings 1:17; 
1 Kings 3:20; 
Psalm 86:16; 
Psalm 116:16 
 
 • handmaids, 1
 
2 Samuel 6:20 
 
 • maid, 5
 
Genesis 30:3; 
Exodus 2:5; 
Exodus 21:20; 
Exodus 21:26; 
Leviticus 25:6 
 
 • maids, 3
 
Ezra 2:65; 
Job 19:15; 
Nahum 2:7 
 
 • maidservant, 14
 
Exodus 20:10; 
Exodus 20:17; 
Exodus 21:7; 
Exodus 21:27; 
Exodus 21:32; 
Deuteronomy 5:14(2); 
Deuteronomy 5:21; 
Deuteronomy 12:18; 
Deuteronomy 15:17; 
Deuteronomy 16:11; 
Deuteronomy 16:14; 
Judges 9:18; 
Job 31:13 
 
 • maidservants, 5
 
Genesis 20:17; 
Genesis 31:33; 
Deuteronomy 12:12; 
2 Samuel 6:22; 
Nehemiah 7:67