16 occurrences

'Servant' in the Bible

And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In Life Of BelieversServants Of The LordAge At Death

But if you have fear of going down, take your servant Purah with you and go down to the tents;

Verse ConceptsFear Of Enemies

And after hearing what they are saying, you will get strength to go down against the army. So he went down with his servant Purah to the outer line of the tents of the armed men.

Verse ConceptsEnemy Attacks

And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.

And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)

Verse ConceptsConcubinesIngratitudeBeing Killed By A RockMaking KingsSeventiesKilling Brothers

Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.

Verse ConceptsArmourArmorbearerApproval To Kill OneselfKilling Named Individuals

After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.

Verse ConceptsUncircumcisionFear, Of DeathFear Of Death

Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessTwo To Four MonthsThose Who Committed Adulterywhores

Then early on the morning of the fifth day he got up to go away; but the girl's father said, Keep up your strength; so the two of them had a meal, and the man and his woman and his servant did not go till after the middle of the day.

Verse ConceptsThe Fifth Day Of The WeekThose Who Rose EarlyPeople Who DelayedDay 5

When they got near Jebus the day was far gone; and the servant said to his master, Now let us go from our road into this town of the Jebusites and take our night's rest there.

And he said to his servant, Come, let us go on to one of these places, stopping for the night in Gibeah or Ramah.

Verse ConceptsStaying Temporarily

See, here is my daughter, a virgin, and his servant-wife: I will send them out for you to take them and do with them whatever you will. But do no such thing of shame to this man.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersGirlsVirginAbusemistressharassmentvirginity

In the morning her master got up, and opening the door of the house went out to go on his way; and he saw his servant-wife stretched on the earth at the door of the house with her hands on the step.

Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.

Verse ConceptsStaying Temporarily

And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it was their purpose to put me to death, and my servant-wife was violently used by them and is dead.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

Bible Theasaurus

Handmaiden (3 instances)
Servant (845 instances)

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