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Damsel

Damsel (1): dam'-zel: A young, unmarried woman; a girl (lass); maiden (compare French demoiselle). The Revised Version (British and American) in Mat 26:69, Joh 18:17, Act 12:13, Act 16:16 gives "maid" for paid...

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Damsel (1):

dam'-zel: A young, unmarried woman; a girl (lass); maiden (compare French demoiselle). The Revised Version (British and American) in Mat 26:69, Joh 18:17, Act 12:13, Act 16:16 gives "maid" for paidiske, "a girl," i.e. (spec.) a maidservant or young female slave (the King James Version "damsel"), and "child" for paidion, "a half-grown boy or girl," in Mar 5:39, Mar 5:40 bis. 41.

(2):

dam'-zel: A young, unmarried woman; a girl (lass); maiden (compare French demoiselle). The Revised Version (British and American) in Mat 26:69, Joh 18:17, Act 12:13, Act 16:16 gives "maid" for paidiske, "a girl," i.e. (spec.) a maidservant or young female slave (the King James Version "damsel"), and "child" for paidion, "a half-grown boy or girl," in Mar 5:39, Mar 5:40 bis. 41.

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