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שִׁפְחָה

shiphchah

shif-khaw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: shiphchâh

a female slave (as a member of the household)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a female slave (as a member of the household)

Rendered in the KJV as

(bond-, hand-) maid(-en, -servant), wench, bondwoman, womanservant.

  • 63
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 49
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 63 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 49

  • שִׁפְחַ֥ת4
  • וּשְׁפָחֹ֔ת3
  • שִׁפְחַ֣ת3
  • הַשְּׁפָח֛וֹת2
  • וְלִשְׁפָח֖וֹת2
  • וְלִשְׁפָחֽוֹת׃ ס2
  • שִׁפְחָתָ֔הּ2
  • שִׁפְחָת֑וֹ2
  • שִׁפְחָתְךָ֛2
  • שִׁפְחָֽתְךָ֙2
  • בְּשִׁפְחָתֶֽךָ׃1
  • הַשִּׁפְחָ֔ה1

and 37 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 31

  • maidservant your11
  • [the] maidservant of7
  • and female servants4
  • and to female slaves3
  • female slave his3
  • maidservant her3
  • maidservant my3
  • the maidservants3
  • a maidservant2
  • maidservant his2
  • the maidservant2
  • [belongs] to maidservant your1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 19

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular10
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)7
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural6
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural6
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular5
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural5
  • noun · feminine singular4
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular2
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsc/Sp2ms · 10
  • HNcfsc · 7
  • HC/Ncfpa · 6
  • HC/R/Ncfpa · 6
  • HNcfsc/Sp3ms · 5
  • HTd/Ncfpa · 5
  • HNcfsa · 4
  • HNcfsc/Sp1bs · 3
  • HNcfsc/Sp3fs · 3
  • HC/Ncfsa · 2
  • HR/Ncfsa · 2
  • HR/Ncfsc/Sp2ms · 2

All 63, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis28 occurrences
Exodus1 occurrence
Leviticus1 occurrence
Deuteronomy1 occurrence
Ruth2 occurrences
1 Samuel6 occurrences
2 Samuel7 occurrences
2 Kings3 occurrences
2 Chronicles1 occurrence
Esther1 occurrence
Psalms1 occurrence
Proverbs1 occurrence
Ecclesiastes1 occurrence
Isaiah2 occurrences
Jeremiah6 occurrences
Joel1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).