Looking for sentences and phrases with the word bondwoman? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman.
But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh: but he of the free woman was by promise.
For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman.
Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Examples from Classical Literature
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Cast out that bondwoman and her son, she demanded of Abraham.
If this becomes known they will make me a bondwoman for all my days.
But the next night Sigrun bade the bondwoman have heed of the mound.
Even these will be cast out, because they are children of the bondwoman.
She is herself an escaped bondwoman and this the second company that she has brought forth out of the land of servitude at great risk to herself.
Ishmael was Abraham's first son, the son of his bondwoman, Hagar.
Here the bondwoman referred to the Old Testament covenant of works, particularly circumcision and its New Testament corollary in the pedobaptist tradition, infant baptism.
This son, Megapenthes, was born to him of a bondwoman, for heaven vouchsafed Helen no more children after she had borne Hermione, who was fair as golden Venus herself.
