Word

παιδίσκη

paidískē · G3814 · Greek · 13 occurrences

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Meanings

slave girl, slave woman

A female slave

Examples
Matthew 26:69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a slave woman came to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.”
Mark 14:66 And while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the slave women of the high priest came,
Mark 14:69 The slave woman saw him, and began once more to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them!”

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀρχιερεύςchief priest, high priest 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 4 groups

τὶςsomeone 2
εἷςone 1
ἔχωto have 1
ὄνομαname 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

θυρωρόςdoorkeeper 1

What it doesIt is the subject

8 occurrences in 8 groups

προσέρχομαιto come to, to approach 2
γεννάωto beget, to be the father of, to give birth 1
ἔπωto say 1
ἔρχομαιto come 1
λέγωto say 1
ὑπακούωto obey 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐκβάλλωto cast out, to drive out 1
τύπτωto hit 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐκfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

τέκνονchild, offspring 1
υἱόςson 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

δούλη doúlē · G1399 · slave girl, slave woman: παιδίσκη and δούλη both denote a female slave or bondwoman. παιδίσκη carries a connotation of youth (a young female slave or maidservant), while δούλη is the more general feminine term for a woman in servitude; the two are otherwise interchangeable designations for the same social status.

In the other Testament 2 words

שִׁפְחָה shiphchâh · H8198 · female slave: Hebrew שִׁפְחָה (šip̄ḥâ) is the direct semantic equivalent, both denoting a female servant or bondmaid, with Greek παιδίσκη serving as the standard LXX rendering of this Hebrew term across narrative and legal contexts.
אָמָה ʼâmâh · H519 · female slave: אָמָה (ʼâmâh, H519) אָמָה (Hebrew) denotes a female servant or bondmaid, corresponding directly to παιδίσκη (paidískē, G3814) παιδίσκη (Greek) which specifies a girl or female slave/servant; both terms share the core semantic field of female servitude with overlapping register.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Slave girl, slave woman87.83: παιδίσκη names a female slave or servant, as Peter is confronted during Jesus' trial: “And a slave woman, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, and staring at him, said, ‘This man was with Him as well.’” (Luke 22:56)

Word family 14 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

παῖς paîs · G3816 · child, offspring · 24×παιδίον paidíon · G3813 · child, offspring · 52×ἐμπαίζω empaízō · G1702 · to mock, to ridicule · 13×παιδεύω paideúō · G3811 · to teach, to instruct, to train · 13×παιδίσκηpaidískē · G3814παιδεία paideía · G3809 · to teach, to instruct, to train · 6×παιδαγωγός paidagōgós · G3807 · guardian, leader, guide · 3×ἐμπαιγμός empaigmós · G1701 · to mock, to ridicule · 2×ἐμπαίκτης empaíktēs · G1703 · mocker · 2×παιδευτής paideutḗs · G3810 · instructor, trainer, teacher · 2×ἀπαίδευτος apaídeutos · G521 · uneducated, foolish, ignorant · 1×παιδάριον paidárion · G3808 · child · 1×παιδιόθεν paidióthen · G3812 · since childhood · 1×παίζω paízō · G3815 · to play · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παιδίσκης, ἡ (feminine of παιδίσκος, a young boy or slave; a diminutive of παῖς, see…

παιδίσκης, ἡ (feminine of παιδίσκος, a young boy or slave; a diminutive of παῖς, see νεανίσκος);
1. a young girl, damsel (Xenophon, Menander, Polybius, Plutarch, Lucian; the Sept. Ruth 4:12).
2. a maid-servant, a young female slave; cf. German Mädchen (our maid) for a young female-servant (Herodotus 1, 93; Lysias, Demosthenes, others): Lk 12:45; Acts 16:16; opposed to ἡ ἐλευθέρα, Gal 4:22f, 30f; specifically, of the maid-servant who had charge of the door: Mt 26:69; Mk 14:66, Mk 14:69; Lk 22:56; Acts 12:13; ἡ παιδίσκη ἡ θυρωρός, Jn 18:17; (also in the Sept. of a female slave, often for אָמָה, שִׁפְחָה). Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 239. (Synonym: see παῖς, at the end.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Slave, Free13 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0