manservant

noun

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

In 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.

Meaning

A male servant. tree →

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

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On Mova

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