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# allegiance

noun

«allegiance» 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

Here it means loyalty to the house of Saul, the first king, while many Benjamites still stayed faithful to his family and not yet to David.

### Meaning

Loyalty and support that you owe to a ruler, a country, or a cause. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allegiance/#m1)

### Examples

- And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand; for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. (Writings 1CH.12.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allegiance/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «allegiance» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allegiance/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«allegiance» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/allegiance.html) on Mova free.