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The Definition of the word Handmaid

Handmaid

Servant (Gen. 16:1; Ruth 3:9; Luke 1:48). It is probable that Hagar was Sarah's personal attendant while she was in the house "of Pharaoh, and was among those maid-servants whom Abram had" brought from Egypt.


The Old Testament

The New Testament