manservant

«manservant» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A male servant — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A male servant. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Tanakh a servant could be a Hebrew who worked for a time or a slave. Hebrew servants had to be freed after a set time. Interpretation: Jeremiah reminds the people of the law of freeing servants. Tradition holds that this law shows that every person belongs to God and not to another human being.

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 →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

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