handmaid

«handmaid» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: maidservant — 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

maidservant

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

a female servant, often a young woman who serves a lady or household. tree →

how it differs from today

An old word, rarely used today; we say maidservant or servant girl.

examples

• And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son. (Torah GEN.30.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• When the Lady Jamila heard that Prince Almas was near, she went out, with many a fair handmaid, to give him loving reception. (The Brown Fairy Book) tree →
• And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son. (Torah GEN.30.12, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

handmaid

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 22 (Torah 20, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.5 (Torah alone 46.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
• Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham.
• And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid.
• And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid.
• And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and Jacob went in unto her.

Trees and pragmatics

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