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# bondwoman

«bondwoman» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **slave woman; maidservant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

slave woman; maidservant

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

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

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say slave or maid.

### examples

- And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise. (Torah DEU.15.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bondwoman/#x1)
- And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.' (Torah GEN.21.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bondwoman/#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/bondwoman/#x3)

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 10 (Torah 10, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.1 (Torah alone 23.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.554/)
- [And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.449/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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