handmaid, female slave
handmaid or female slave, Hdt. 3.134, Pherecyd.Syr. 2, And. 1.64, X. Cyr. 6.4.11, Men. 141, etc.
The corpus record
θεράπαιν-α
therapaina · ἡ
handmaid, female slave
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Where it lives
- Job 3 · 2.25/10k
- Exodus 3 · 1.27/10k
- Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
- Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
- Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
- Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
- Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θεραπαίνας · therapainas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1634)
- θεραπαίνας · therapainas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3701)
- θεραπαινῶν · therapainōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.12 (DIORISIS sentence 8552)
- θεραπαίνας · therapainas Herodotus, Histories 3.134.5 (DIORISIS sentence 3904)
- θεραπαίνης · therapainēs Septuaginta, Exodus 11
- θεραπαίνης · therapainēs Septuaginta, Exodus 21
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.