Strong's H8198
שִׁפְחָה
- Transliteration
- shiphchâh
- Pronunciation
- shif-khaw'
- Definition
- a female slave (as a member of the household)
- KJV usage
- (bond-, hand-) maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.
- Derivation
- feminine from an unused root meaning to spread out (as a family; see H4940 (מִשְׁפָּחָה));
From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.