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# bondmaid

«bondmaid» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **owned or bound to serve** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A female slave or servant, a woman who is owned or bound to serve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bondmaid/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Torah law allows owning bondmaids bought from the nations around, but sets rules to protect them. Interpretation: Tradition limits slavery strictly, treating servants as people with rights, such as rest on Shabbat and humane treatment.

### examples

- And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. (Torah LEV.25.44, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/bondmaid/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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