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# manservant

«manservant» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A male servant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A male servant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/manservant/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Tanakh a servant could be a Hebrew who worked for a time or a slave. Hebrew servants had to be freed after a set time. Interpretation: Jeremiah reminds the people of the law of freeing servants. Tradition holds that this law shows that every person belongs to God and not to another human being.

### 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/manservant/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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