אָמָה
ʼâmâh · aw-maw'
a maidservant or female slave
Lexicon
Derivation: apparently a primitive word;
a maidservant or female slave
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (hand-) bondmaid(-woman), maid(-servant).
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
Strength, the leader of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָמָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
56 occurrences · 56 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of thine handmaid5 · 14%
- and thy maidservant4 · 11%
- thine handmaid3 · 8%
- unto thine handmaid3 · 8%
- nor thy maidservant2 · 5%
- and his maidservants1 · 3%
- this bondwoman1 · 3%
- of this bondwoman1 · 3%
- and because of thy bondwoman1 · 3%
- of the bondwoman1 · 3%
- behold my maid1 · 3%
- maidservants1 · 3%
- her maid1 · 3%
- nor his maidservant1 · 3%
- to be a maidservant1 · 3%
- or his maid1 · 3%
- of his maid1 · 3%
- or his maidservant's1 · 3%
- or a maidservant1 · 3%
- of thy handmaid1 · 3%
- and for thy maid1 · 3%
- and thy bondmaids1 · 3%
- and bondmaids1 · 3%
- or his maidservant1 · 3%
- and your maidservants1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.