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Handmaid

Servant (Gen. 16:1; Ruth 3:9; Luke 1:48). It is probable that Hagar was Sarah’s personal attendant while she was in the house of Pharaoh, and was among those maid-servants whom Abram had brought from Egypt.

In the Bible

40

Verses where Handmaid is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • 1 Kings 1:13

    Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’

  • 1 Kings 1:17

    “My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ‘Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.’

  • 1 Kings 3:20

    So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

  • 1 Samuel 1:11

    And she made a vow, saying, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”

  • 1 Samuel 1:16

    Do not take your servant for a wicked woman, for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

  • 1 Samuel 1:18

    “May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began to eat, and her face was no longer downcast.

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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

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