μαῖα
midwife
Where this word appears
Every passage where μαῖα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 35:17 μαῖα And it came to pass in her hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Be of good courage, for you shall also have this son.
- Genesis 38:28 μαῖα And it came to pass as she was bringing forth, one thrust forth his hand, and the midwife having taken hold of it, bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This one shall come out first.
- Exodus 1:15 μαῖα And the king of the Egyptians spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews; the name of the one was, Sepphora; and the name of the second, Phua.
- Exodus 1:17 μαῖα But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive.
- Exodus 1:18 μαῖα And the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why is it that you⌃ have done this thing, and saved the male children alive?
- Exodus 1:19 μαῖα And the midwives said to Pharao, The Hebrew women are not as the women of Egypt, for they are delivered before the midwives go in to them. So they bore children.
- Exodus 1:19 μαῖα And the midwives said to Pharao, The Hebrew women are not as the women of Egypt, for they are delivered before the midwives go in to them. So they bore children.
- Exodus 1:20 μαῖα And God did well to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very strong.
- Exodus 1:21 μαῖα And as the midwives feared God, they established for themselves families.
About this word
About this word
μαῖα (maîa), “midwife,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 9 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →