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# handmaid

«handmaid» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **maidservant** — 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

maidservant

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

a female servant, often a young woman who serves a lady or household. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/handmaid/#m1)

### how it differs from today

An old word, rarely used today; we say maidservant or servant girl.

### examples

- And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son. (Torah GEN.30.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/handmaid/#x1)
- When the Lady Jamila heard that Prince Almas was near, she went out, with many a fair handmaid, to give him loving reception. (The Brown Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/handmaid/#x2)
- And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son. (Torah GEN.30.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/handmaid/#x3)

### primary record

handmaid

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 22 (Torah 20, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.5 (Torah alone 46.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.398/)
- [Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.708/)
- [And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.875/)
- [And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.880/)
- [And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife; and Jacob went in unto her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.890/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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