'Maidens' in the Bible
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.
‘Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil?A maiden, two maidens for every warrior;To Sisera a spoil of dyed work,A spoil of dyed work embroidered,Dyed work of double embroidery on the neck of the spoiler?’
Then Abigail quickly arose, and rode on a donkey, with her five maidens who attended her; and she followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
Then Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her, and the queen writhed in great anguish. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai that he might remove his sackcloth from him, but he did not accept them.
“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
“Will you play with him as with a bird,Or will you bind him for your maidens?
The singers went on, the musicians after them,In the midst of the maidens beating tambourines.
She has sent out her maidens, she callsFrom the tops of the heights of the city:
And there will be goats’ milk enough for your food,For the food of your household,And sustenance for your maidens.
She rises also while it is still nightAnd gives food to her householdAnd portions to her maidens.
“Your oils have a pleasing fragrance,Your name is like purified oil;Therefore the maidens love you.
“Like a lily among the thorns,So is my darling among the maidens.”
“There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,And maidens without number;
But my dove, my perfect one, is unique:She is her mother’s only daughter;She is the pure child of the one who bore her.The maidens saw her and called her blessed,The queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,
Utterly slay old men, young men, maidens, little children, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary.” So they started with the elders who were before the temple.