maidservant

noun (plural maidservants)

«maidservant» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

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

In the lessons

in old tales, a girl sent out to work for a master or mistress

Examples

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

In 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.

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

nothing for maths

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «maidservant» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«maidservant» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «maidservant» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«maidservant» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.

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