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Webster 1913 Edition


Bond servant

bond-servant

,

Bond′ servˊant

(sẽrvˊant)
.
A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a
bond servant
: but as an hired servant.
Lev. xxv. 39, 40.