Category:Handmaid

Hand"maid", Hand"maiden, n.

Defn: A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

In Luke 1:38, the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Annunciation responds to the Angel Gabriel that she is the "handmaid of the Lord", showing her humility in doing God's will.

In Luke 1:48 in the Magnificat, she states, "...because He has regarded the humility of His handmaid; for behold, from now on all generations shall call me blessed...." --

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Handmaid - Servant (Genesis 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.