bondmaid

«bondmaid» in Mova's judaism dictionary: owned or bound to serve — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A female slave or servant, a woman who is owned or bound to serve. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Torah law allows owning bondmaids bought from the nations around, but sets rules to protect them. Interpretation: Tradition limits slavery strictly, treating servants as people with rights, such as rest on Shabbat and humane treatment.

examples

• And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. (Torah LEV.25.44, JPS 1917) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

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