noun · feminine
doulas
Strong’sG1399
a female slave, bonds-maid
stem doul-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δούλη, ἡ, v.s. δοῦλος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1399 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddoo'-lay
a female slave (involuntarily or voluntarily)
Fromfeminine of G1401;
King Jameshandmaid(-en).
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
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+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | doulas1×δούλη | doulais |
| object accusative | doulan | doulain1×δούλας |
| direct address vocative | doular | doulair |
| of, belonging to genitive | doulau1×δούλης | doulaiu |
| to, for dative | doula | doulai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
doula is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
doulas“servant”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 1:38legata de Mariam; Idou tas doulas kuriou; genetoia mi kata tem rēmem …“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it happen to …
doulau“servant”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 1:48hoti epiblepata epi tan tapeinōsian tau doulau autou, idou gar apo tou nun …… on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will …
doulain“female slaves”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 2:18“female slaves”… toin douloin mu kai epi tain doulain mu en tai hēmerai ekeinai ekchami …Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they …