שִׁפְחָה

שִׁפְחָהf. (b. h.; v. מִשְׁפָּחָה) (attached to the household,) handmaid, slave.ש׳ חרופה, v. חֲרוָּפה.Snh.39a נטלו … לו ש׳ לשמשו they took a rib from him (Adam), and gave him a handmaid to wait on him. Ib. 99b מוטב תהא ש׳ לאומה זווכ׳ better for her to be a handmaid to this nation than a mistress to any other nation. Kidd.III, 12 ולד ש׳ ונכרית the child of a slave or of a gentile woman. Ib. 13 ממזר שנשא ש׳וכ׳ if a bastard married a slave, their child is a slave. Ib. 69a האומר לשִׁפְחָתוֹוכ׳ if one says to his bondwoman, be thou free, but thy child (with which thou goest) shall be a slave, the child follows her status (is free). Ib. ש׳ כנענית a Canaanite slave. Keth.V, 5 הכניסה לו ש׳ אחתוכ׳ if the wife brought him one slave, she need not grind, or bake ; a. v. fr.Pl. שְׁפָחוֹת. Ib. אפי׳ … מאה ש׳וכ׳ even if she brought him a hundred slaves, he may force her (his wife) to work in wool Ker.9a ש׳ חרופות, v. חֲרוּפָה. Lev. R. s. 16, a. e. ש׳ מכודנות, v. כָּדַן. Tanḥ. Vayetsé 8 לא תהא … הש׳ should not my sister Rachel be at least like one of the handmaids (Bilhah and Zilpah)? Ab. II, 7; a. fr.