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# bondage

noun (no plural)

«bondage» 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

Bondage is being a slave or being completely controlled by someone or something, so you are not free. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bondage/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, bondage means being held down by a cruel ruler or by fear, and freedom ends it

### Examples

- The people were set free from bondage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bondage/#x1)
- The boy freed them from the bondage of fear. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bondage/#x2)
- Nobody wants to live in bondage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bondage/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Slavery, above all the Israelites' slavery in Egypt. Egypt is called the house of bondage. The Prophets keep using this phrase when they remind Israel that God freed it.

**Interpretation.** Remembering the bondage in Egypt is central to Judaism. Passover tells how God freed Israel, and it is why Jews are told to treat strangers and servants kindly. The prophets read the Exodus as the reason Israel owes God loyalty.

### Examples

- And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage. (Torah DEU.26.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bondage/#x1)
- I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. (Torah EXO.20.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bondage/#x2)
- And Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel; but they hearkened not unto Moses for impatience of spirit, and for cruel bondage. (Torah EXO.6.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bondage/#x3)
- For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. (Prophets MIC.6.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bondage/#x4)
- Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying: (Prophets JER.34.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bondage/#x5)
- And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Did I reveal Myself unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house? (Prophets 1SA.2.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bondage/#x6)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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