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# bondman

«bondman» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **slave; servant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

slave; servant

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A man who is owned by another and must work for him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bondman/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say slave or servant.

### examples

- Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondman that is escaped from his master unto thee; (Torah DEU.23.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bondman/#x1)
- And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. (Torah DEU.16.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bondman/#x2)
- And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. (Torah EXO.21.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bondman/#x3)

### primary record

slave

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 13 (Torah 13, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.5 (Torah alone 30.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1447/)
- [Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1568/)
- [And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1654/)
- [For they are My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.775/)
- [And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.467/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bondman» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bondman/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.