单词 | servant of servants |
释义 | > as lemmasservant of servants servant of servants n. a slave in a position of the most extreme or most demeaning servitude.Chiefly in or with reference to the biblical use in Genesis 9:25. [After post-classical Latin servus servorum (Vulgate), itself after Hebrew ʿeḇeḏ ʿăḇāḏīm (Genesis 9:25).] ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > one in most degrading slavery servant of servantsa1425 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. ix. 25 Cursid be the child Canaan, he schal be seruaunt of seruauntis [L. servus servorum] to hise britheren. 1700 J. Buerdsell Disc. & Ess. Several Subj. 49 For is not Canaan sentenc'd to be a Servant of Servants, for the Unnaturalness of his Father Ham? 1848 J. Baker Rev. Bible 26 Here Noah is represented as cursing his son Canaan..dooming him to be a servant of servants unto his brethren. 1962 Ebony July 74/1 Did Canaan become Shem and Japheth's ‘servant of servants?’ Quite the contrary. < as lemmas |
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