θεραπαίνα
maidservant
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where θεραπαίνα appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 7 total occurrences). 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.
- Job 19:15 θεραπαίνα As for my household, and my maidservants, I was a stranger before them.
- Job 31:13 θεραπαίνα And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, when they pleaded with me;
- Job 31:31 θεραπαίνα And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:
- Proverbs 31:15 θεραπαίνα And she rises by night, and gives food to her household, and appointed tasks to her maidens.
About this word
About this word
θεραπαίνα (therapaína), “maidservant,” 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 7 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 →
