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Strong's #3814 - παιδίσκη
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- a young girl, damsel
- a maid-servant, a young female slave
- a maid servant who has charge of the door
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παιδίσκ-η, ἡ, Dim. of παῖς (ἡ),
I young girl, maiden, X. An. 4.3.11, Anaxil. 22.26, Men. 102, etc.; π. νέα, of a wife, Plu. Cic. 41.
II
1. young female slave, bondmaid, Lys. 1.12, 13.67, PCair.Zen. 142 (iii B. C.), Galatians 4:22 : generally, maidservant, Mark 14:66; τοὺς παῖδας καὶ τὰς π. Luke 12:45.
2. prostitute, Hdt. 1.93, Is 6.19, Plu. Per. 24, Cat. Ma. 24, etc.; αἱ δημόσιαι π. Ath. 10.437e.
παιδίσκη, 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): Luke 12:45; Acts 16:16; opposed to ἡ ἐλευθέρα, Galatians 4:22f, 30f; specifically, of the maid-servant who had charge of the door: Matthew 26:69; Mark 14:66, 69; Luke 22:56; Acts 12:13; ἡ παιδίσκη ἡ θυρωρός, John 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.)
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παιδίσκη , -ης , ἡ ,
dimin, of παῖς ,
[in LXX for H8198, H519, etc.;]
1. a young girl, a maiden (H5291, Ruth 4:12).
2. Colloq., a young female slave, a maid-servant (v. Kennedy, Sources, 40 f.; Deiss., LAE, 186, 332.2): Matthew 26:69, Mark 14:66; Mark 14:69, Luke 12:45; Luke 22:56, John 18:17, Acts 12:13; Acts 16:16; of Hagar, Galatians 4:22-23; Galatians 4:30 (LXX); id., metaph., Galatians 4:31.†
SYN.: see παῖς G3816.
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