paidiskē · servant girl

What it means

paidiskē (παιδίσκη) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “servant girl”.

Young female slave.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A girl who worked in service of a household, often without freedom.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• servant girl ×5
• slave woman ×5
• maids ×1
• servant girls ×1
• slave girl ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×2
• Luke×2
• John×1
• Acts×2
• Galatians×5

• Matthew 26:69

  Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him, saying, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

• Mark 14:66

  And while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest comes,

• Mark 14:69

  And the servant girl, seeing him, began again to say to those standing by, “This man is one of them.”

• Luke 12:45

  But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying to come,’ and begins to beat the servants and the maids, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

• Luke 22:56

  And a certain servant girl, seeing him sitting facing the light and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”

• John 18:17

  So the servant girl who kept the door says to Peter, “Surely you too are not one of the disciples of this man?” He says, “I am not.”

• Acts 12:13

  And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.

• Acts 16:16

  And it happened as we were going to the place of prayer that a certain slave girl who had a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

• Galatians 4:22

  For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.

• Galatians 4:23

  But the son of the slave woman was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

• Galatians 4:30

  But what does the Scripture say? Drive out the slave woman and her son; for the son of the slave woman will never inherit with the son of the free woman.

• Galatians 4:31

  Therefore, brothers, we are not children of a slave woman but of the free woman.

And 1 more times.