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Mistress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A woman who governs; correlative to servant, slave, or subject.

2. My mistress here lies murdered in her bed.

3. The female head of a family.

4. That which governs; a sovereign. Rome was mistress of the world.

5. One that commands, or has possession and sovereignty. The queen is mistress of the Indies.

6. A female who is well skilled in any thing; as, she is mistress of arithmetic.

7. A woman teacher; an instructress of a school.

8. A woman beloved and courted.

9. A woman in keeping for lewd purposes.

10. A term of contemptuous address.

Mistress [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

Mistress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.

2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.

4. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.

5. A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.

6. A married woman; a wife.

7. The old name of the jack at bowls.

Mistress [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

Mistress-ship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Female rule or dominion.

Mistressship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Female rule or dominion.

2. Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun.

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9 KJV and 8 BSB verses contain “mistress”

Genesis 16:4

And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

Genesis 16:8

And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

Genesis 16:9

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

1 Kings 17:17

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.

2 Kings 5:3

And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.”

Psalms 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.

Proverbs 30:23

For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Nahum 3:4

Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.