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# allegiance

«allegiance» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Loyalty and support that you owe to a ruler, a country…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Loyalty and support that you owe to a ruler, a country, or a cause. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allegiance/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means loyalty to the house of Saul, the first king, while many Benjamites still stayed faithful to his family and not yet to David.

### examples

- And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand; for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. (Writings 1CH.12.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/allegiance/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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