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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maidservant/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maidservant/#x1)
- The maidservant swept the floors every morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maidservant/#x2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/maidservant/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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