bondman

«bondman» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: slave; servant — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

slave; servant

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A man who is owned by another and must work for him. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say slave or servant.

examples

• Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondman that is escaped from his master unto thee; (Torah DEU.23.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. (Torah DEU.16.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. (Torah EXO.21.27, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

slave

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 13 (Torah 13, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.5 (Torah alone 30.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.'
• Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.'
• And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.'
• For they are My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen.
• And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bondman» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.