maidservant in English

noun
1
a female domestic servant.
She promptly placed one thousand man-servants opposite one thousand maidservants and declared, ‘He will marry her, she will marry him, ‘and so on.’

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1. She became the maidservant of the wife of a leprous Syrian army chief, Naaman.

2. Sarah complained bitterly to Abraham and humiliated Hagar, causing the maidservant to flee. —Genesis 16:1-6.

3. 16 At his wife’s urging, Abraham agreed to produce a potential heir through Sarah’s Egyptian maidservant, Hagar.

4. Ayah definition: (in the East, Africa, and other parts of the former British Empire ) a maidservant , Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

5. Amah definition: (in India and East Asia, esp formerly) a nurse or maidservant , esp one of Chinese origin Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

6. 1960s Singapore – Amahs (by Tim Light) amah [ˈɑːmə ˈæmə] n (in the East, esp formerly) a nurse or maidservant, esp one of Chinese origin

7. Noun (in the East, Africa, and other parts of the former British Empire) a maidservant, nursemaid, or governess, esp one of Indian or Malay originCompare amah Word Origin for Ayah C18: from Hindi …

8. (in the East, esp formerly) a nurse or maidservant, esp one of Chinese originCompare ayah Word Origin for Amah C19: from Portuguese ama nurse, wet nurse Collins English Dictionary - Complete & …

9. As her ancestress Sarah did with Hagar, Rachel brings her maidservant Bilhah and offers her to Jacob as a secondary wife in order that, as Rachel says, “I, even I, may get children from her.”

10. Leviticus 25:44 says: “Both thy bondmen, and thy Bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and Bondmaids.” Exodus 21:7 gives rules when “a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant.” Would high school students discuss buying slaves — and selling daughters into