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# maidservant

«maidservant» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural maidservants)

### meaning for a pupil

A maidservant is a young woman who works as a servant in a house, cleaning and cooking. Old use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/maidservant/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A female servant or slave in a household. In the Torah she has legal protections and rest on the Sabbath. Interpretation: Jeremiah rebukes the people for taking back servants they had freed. Tradition teaches that Hebrew servants must be released, and it treats freedom as a gift from God. In the primary lessons: in old tales, a girl sent out to work for a master or mistress

### examples

- that every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, even of a Jew his brother; (Prophets JER.34.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/maidservant/#x1)
- You must go out into the world and take service as a maidservant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/maidservant/#x2)
- The maidservant swept the floors every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/maidservant/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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