taskmaster

«taskmaster» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A person who sets hard work for others and makes sure… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A person who sets hard work for others and makes sure they do it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Exodus these are the Egyptian overseers set over the Israelite slaves to make them work. Interpretation: At the Passover seder, the taskmasters stand for the cruelty of slavery from which God freed Israel.

examples

• Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. (Torah EXO.1.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying: (Torah EXO.5.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.' (Torah EXO.5.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. (Writings JOB.3.18, JPS 1917) tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
• And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying:
• And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.'
• There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

Trees and pragmatics

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