ΔΟΥΛΗ, δουλη
DOULĒ, doulē
Sounds Like: DOO-lay
Translations: female slave, bondwoman, handmaiden, a female slave, a bondwoman, a handmaiden
From the root: ΔΟΥΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a female slave or bondwoman, often used in a humble or subservient sense, such as a handmaiden. It can also be used metaphorically to describe someone who is devoted or obedient to another, like a servant of God. It is a compound word, but its parts are not easily separable into distinct meanings.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1397 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 7:194
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Ruth — 3:9
- 1 Samuel — 1:11, 1:18, 25:24, 25:25, 25:27, 25:41, 28:21
- 2 Samuel — 14:6, 14:12
- 1 Kings — 1:13, 1:17
- 2 Kings — 4:2
- Esther — 4:17
- Judith — 11:16, 11:17, 12:4, 12:15, 12:19, 13:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Luke — 1:38
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΟΥΛΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΔΟΥ — slave, servant, bondservant, a slave, a servant
- ΔΟΥΛ — servant, slave, bondservant, a servant, a slave
- ΔΟΥΛΑ — female slave, bondwoman, maidservant, a female slave
- ΔΟΥΛΗΣ — of a female servant, of a female slave, of a handmaiden, of a bondservant
- ΔΟΥΛΙΑ — slavery, bondage, servitude, a slavery, a bondage, a servitude
- ΔΟΥΛΟ — slave, a slave, servant, a servant, bondservant, a bondservant, (of) a slave, (of) a servant, (of) a bondservant, (to) a slave, (to) a servant, (to) a bondservant
- ΔΟΥΛΟΙ — slaves, servants, bondservants
- ΔΟΥΛΟΙΣ — to a slave, to a servant, to a bondservant, to slaves, to servants, to bondservants
- ΔΟΥΛΟΝ — slave, a slave, servant, a servant
- ΔΟΥΛΟΣ — servant, a servant, slave, a slave, bondservant, a bondservant
- ΔΟΥΛΟΥ — of a slave, of a servant, of a bondservant
- ΔΟΥΛΟΥΣ — slaves, servants
- ΔΟΥΛΩΝ — of slaves, of servants, of bondservants
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