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

### 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/manservant/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

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