Lexical Definition

‎אָמָה‎ ʼâmâh (aw-maw') maidservant ^H:N-F
apparently a primitive word

(hand-) bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant).

• a maidservant or female slave

1) maid-servant, female slave, maid, handmaid, concubine
1a) of humility (fig.)

See Greek: ἀφαιρέω · παιδίσκη

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אָמָה‎ noun feminine maid, handmaid (Phoenician ‎אמת‎, Arabic , Sabean ‎אמת‎ in proper name SabDenkm²⁰, Aramaic , Assyrian amtu Zim^{BP 67}) — ‎׳‎‎א‎ absolute Gen 21:10 +; suffix ‎אֲמָתִי‎ Gen 30:3 +, etc.; plural absolute ‎אֲמָהֹת‎ Gen 31:33; 2Sam 6:22 construct ‎אַמְהוֺת‎ 2Sam 6:20 ‎אַמְהֹתַי‎ Job 19:5 etc. — maid, handmaid.

1. literally maidservant (= ‎שִׁפְחָה‎ q. v., where however sometimes more servile; rarely P in Hexateuch) Gen 30:3; Gen 31:33 (|| ‎שִׁפְחָה‎ Gen 29:24; Gen 29:29 P Gen 30:4f. J etc.) Exod 2:5 (all E); 2Sam 6:20; 2Sam 6:22; Job 19:15; Nah 2:8* (suffix refers to mistress, except Job 19:15 compare 2Sam 6:20; 2Sam 6:22); in legisl. (|| ‎עֶבֶד‎) Exod 20:10; Exod 20:17; Exod 21:20; Exod 21:26; Exod 21:27; Exod 21:32 (all E) Lev 25:6; Lev 25:44 (twice in verse) (H) Deut 5:14 (twice in verse); Deut 5:18; Deut 12:12; Deut 12:18; Deut 15:17 (compare see 12) Deut 16:11; Deut 16:14 compare also Job 31:13; Ezra 2:65; Neh 7:67 applied to concubine (suffix of master) Gen 20:17; Gen 21:12; Exod 23:12 (all E) Judg 9:18; Judg 19:19 also Gen 21:10 (twice in verse); Gen 21:13 (Gen 16:1f. P ‎שִׁפְחָה‎ q. v.) Exod 21:7 (all E), see on this Sta^{Gesch i: p. 380.}

2. figurative in address, ‎אֲמָֽתְךָ‎ etc., referring to speaker, in token of humility; Ruth 3:9 (twice in verse) (|| ‎שׁפחה‎ Ruth 2:13) 1Sam 1:16 (|| id. v1Sam 1:18) 1Sam 25:24 (twice in verse); 1Sam 25:25; 1Sam 25:28; 1Sam 25:31; 1Sam 25:41 (|| id. v1Sam 25:27) 2Sam 14:15; 2Sam 14:16 (|| id. v2Sam 14:6 v2Sam 14:7 v2Sam 14:12 v2Sam 14:15 v2Sam 14:17 v2Sam 14:19); 2Sam 20:17; 1Kgs 1:13; 1Kgs 1:17; 1Kgs 3:20 in addressing God (never ‎שׁפחה‎) 1Sam 1:11 (3 t. in verse), compare ‎׳‎‎בֶּןאֿ‎ Ps 86:16; Ps 116:16.

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