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# taskmaster

«taskmaster» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A person who sets hard work for others and makes sure…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who sets hard work for others and makes sure they do it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/taskmaster/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Exodus these are the Egyptian overseers set over the Israelite slaves to make them work. Interpretation: At the Passover seder, the taskmasters stand for the cruelty of slavery from which God freed Israel.

### examples

- Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. (Torah EXO.1.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/taskmaster/#x1)
- And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying: (Torah EXO.5.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/taskmaster/#x2)
- And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.' (Torah EXO.5.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/taskmaster/#x3)
- There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. (Writings JOB.3.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/taskmaster/#x4)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.10/)
- [And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.121/)
- [And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.129/)
- [There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.56/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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