ebed

The Hebrew word ebed is translated as "slave" or "servant", but the concept is not the same as the modern understanding of "slave".

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

The Hebrew word ebed is translated as "slave" or "servant", but the concept is not fully the same as the modern understanding of "slave", the institution of which was not a monolithic institution.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

The Hebrew, word is 'ebed' which means a bond slave, and the words 'ebed ebadim' translated 'slave of slaves,' means strictly the most abject of slaves.

Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914

The Hebrew, word is _'ebed'_ which means a bond slave, and the words _'ebed ebadim'_ translated 'slave of slaves,' means strictly _the most abject of slaves_.

Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II 1831

_'doulas, '_ which is the same as _'ebed'_ in the Hebrew, and always means

Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II 1831

Hmm... this seems like cheating trackback by skipping on the spec... and I don't like this ebed flash in your post deal...

Infrastructure Independent Trackback - Freshblog 2006

Instead of writing, as he intended, _'ebed gamal Mohar na'amu_ ( "a camel's slave is the Mohar! they say"), he has assigned the Canaanite vowel _ayin_ to the wrong word, and mis-spelt the name of the "camel," so that the phrase is transformed into _abad kamal Mohar n'amu_ ( "the camel of the Mohar has perished, they are pleasant").

Patriarchal Palestine 1889

“In the New Testament too the word translated 'servant' from the Greek is 'doulas,' which is the same as 'ebed' in the Hebrew, and always means a bond slave.

Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914

(It is curious that a similar mistake in regard to the spelling of _'ebed_, "_slave_" or "_servant_" has been made in an Aramaic inscription which I have discovered on the rocks near

Patriarchal Palestine 1889