Quick Definition
παιδίσκη, ης, ἡ n.f. a female slave, maidservant, maid.
Strong's Definition
feminine diminutive of 3816; a girl, i.e. (specially), a female slave or servant
KJV Usage: bondmaid(-woman), damsel, maid(-en)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ης | παίζω
1 παιδίσκη probably refers to someone younger than would be the case for δούλη.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παιδίσκη, -ns, 7, (fem. of παιδίσκος, a young boy or slave ; a dimin. of παῖς, see νεανίσκος) ; 1. a young girl, damsel, (Xen., Menand., Polyb., Plut., Leian. ; Sept. Ruth iv. 12). 2. a maid-servant, a young female slave; cf. Germ. Madchen [our maid] for a young female-servant (Hdt. 1, 93; Lys., Dem., al.) : Lk. xii. 45; Acts xvi. 16; opp. to ἡ ἐλευθέρα, Gal. iv. 22 sq. 30 sq-; spec. of the maid-servant who had charge of the door: Mt. xxvi. 69; Mk. xiv. 66, 69; Lk. xxii. 56; Acts xii. 13; ἡ π. ἡ θυρωρός, Jn. xviii. 17; (also in the Sept. of a female slave, often for HAS, ANDW). Cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 239. [Syn. see παῖς, fin.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παιδίσκη paidiskē 13x
a girl, damsel, maiden; a female slave or servant, Mt. 26:69; Mk. 14:66, 69
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
παιδίσκη, -ης, ἡ,
dimin, of παῖς, [in LXX for שִׁפְחָה, אָמָה, etc.;]
a young girl, a maiden (נַעֲרָה, Ru 4:12).
Colloq., a young female slave, a maid-servant (v. Kennedy, Sources, 40 f.; Deiss., LAE, 186, 3322): Mt 26:69, Mk 14:66, 69, Lk 12:45 22:56, Jo 18:17, Ac 12:13 16:16; of Hagar, Ga 4:22, 23, 30(LXX); id., metaph., Ga 4:31.†
SYN.: v.s. παῖς.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παιδίσκη from meaning originally ‘‘a young woman” came in later Greek to denote ‘‘a female slave”: see Rutherford WP, p- 312f., Kennedy, Sowsces, p. 401, Exx. of this meaning, as in LXX and NTI, are—PSI IV. 406” (iii/B.c.) Δριμύλος παιδίσκην ἠγόραζεν (δραχμὰς) τ, P Criss I. 2 19 (Bic. 173) παιδίσκην δο[ύλην αὐτῆς] ἧι. ὄνομα Στολίς, P Grenf I. 43° (ii/B c.) ᾿ΑἸφροδισία καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ καὶ ἡ παιδίσκη, BGU I. 9519 (ii/A.D.) ὑπάρχι δὲ τῇ θυγατρὶ] παιδίσκη δούλη Tacov[xap|tov, and the illiterate P Oxy VII. 10691® (ili/a.D) τὴν πεδείσκην pov δὲ mpd λόγον avaykacov φειλοπονεῖστε (= φιλοπονεῖσθαι), ‘make my slave-girl be properly industrious” (Ed.). Other reff. in Rostovtzeff, Large Estate,p.115f. In PSI VI. 667 (iii/B.c.) a παιδίσκη writes to her employer that she is ‘‘ tired of dragging wood” (kek[pnkut?]a ξυλοφοροῦσᾳ), but “‘does not wish to go on strike” (οὐ θέλουσα ἀναχωρῆσαι). On the honoured place which female slaves frequently occupied in the family see Wilcken Osty. i. p. 686, and cf. Milligan Here and There, p 981. The masc. ὁ παιδίσκος is not found in the Ptolemaic παιζω 475 πάλιν παίξω. παλαιός, For this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (1 Cor 107) cf. the sepulchral inscr. “old,” is naturally very common in our sources. A few Karbel 3628 (ii/iii a.p.)— παῖσον, τρύφησον, ζῆσον' ἀποθανεῖν σε δεῖ. The verb is found in the magic P Lond 1214%8 (iii/a.D.) (=I. p. 98); cf. the compounds ἐμπαίζω s.v., προσπαίζω in P Par 5051 (B.c. 159) (= UPZ i. p. 365) προσπαίζουσι att<@>, and συμπαίζω in BGU IV. 1027**vi 20 (end iv/A.D.) συμπέ(-- αὐζοντες τῇ ἡγεμονικῦ [τάξει, and in P Cairo Preis 211(s.v. πεῖρα). See also Aristeas 284 θεωρεῖν ὅσα παίζεται μετὰ περιστολῆς, ‘to watch plays which are played with propriety ” (Thackeray), and the subst. παίστης a woman makes a contract for herself σὺν ἄλλοις παισταῖς τρισί, ‘with three other dancers.” For the tense formation of παίζω cf. Thackeray Gr. i. p- 222, and note MGr érarga, ἐπαίχτηκα : see also Hatzidakis, Einl, p. 135 f.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
παιδίσκη (paidiskē) — maidservant. παιδίσκ-η, ἡ, diminutive of παῖς (ἡ), young girl, maiden, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. νέα, of a wife, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. young female slave, bondmaid, [NT+5th c.BC+]: generally, maidservant, [NT]; τοὺς παῖδας καὶ τὰς π. [NT]
II.2. prostitute, [Refs 5th c.BC+]