maidservant

«maidservant» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (plural maidservants)

meaning for a pupil

A maidservant is a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning and cooking. Old use. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A female servant or slave in a household. In the Torah she has legal protections and rest on the Sabbath. Interpretation: Jeremiah rebukes the people for taking back servants they had freed. Tradition teaches that Hebrew servants must be released, and it treats freedom as a gift from God. In the primary lessons: in old tales, a girl sent out to work for a master or mistress

examples

• that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, even of a Jew his brother; (Prophets JER.34.9, JPS 1917) tree →
• You must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant. tree →
• The maidservant swept the floors every morning. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

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