Definition

a female slave (involuntarily or voluntarily)

Etymology

feminine of G1401 (δοῦλος);

Word family

• δοῦλος doûlos

How the KJV renders it

• handmaid(-en)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.