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G1399 δούλη (doúlē)
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Quick Definition

δούλη, ης, ἡ n.f. a female slave, bonds-maid

Strong's Definition

feminine of 1401; a female slave (involuntarily or voluntarily)

KJV Usage: handmaid(-en)

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, f. | -ης | δουλόω

87.83 · Status · Slave, Free

slave girl, slave woman a female slave

LUK 1:38 · LUK 1:48 · ACT 2:18

1 παιδίσκη probably refers to someone younger than would be the case for δούλη.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

δούλη doulē 3x

female slave, bondmaid, Lk. 1:38, 48; Acts 2:18*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

δούλη, ἡ, v.s. δοῦλος.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

δούλη (doulē) — female slave. δοῦλος

__A, Cretan dialect δῶλος [Refs], ὁ:—properly born bondman or slave, opposed to one made a slave, τὰ ἀνδράποδα πάντα καὶ δοῦλα καὶ ἐλεύθερα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: then, generally, bondman, slave, opposed to δεσπότης (which see): not in [Refs 8th c.BC+], who twice has feminine δούλη, ἡ, bondwoman, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently of Persians and other nations subject to a despot, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὔ τινος δοῦλοι κέκληνται, of the Greeks, [Refs 4th c.BC+] slaves to money, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λιχνειῶν, λαγνειῶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II adjective (not in [Refs 4th c.BC+], δοῦλος, η, ον, slavish, servile, subject, δ. πόλις [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σῶμα δ., opposed to νοῦς ἐλεύθερος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. θάνατος, ζυγόν, πούς, [Refs 5th c.BC+] more enslaved, Αἴγυπτον δ. ποιεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.2 τὸ δ., ={οἱ δοῦλοι}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, slavery, a slavish life, [Refs] __A.II.3 ancillary, δ. ἐπιστῆμαι [Refs 4th c.BC+]

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