Study it in the app“But afterward they turned back, and brought back the slaves and the slave women whom they had let go free, and subjected them to be slaves and slave women.”
Butוַafterwardאַחֲרֵי כֵןthey turned back,יָּשׁוּבוּand brought backוַיָּשִׁבוּthe slavesאֶת הָעֲבָדִיםand the slave womenוְאֶת הַשְּׁפָחוֹתwhomאֲשֶׁרthey had let goשִׁלְּחוּfree,חָפְשִׁיםand subjected themוַיִּכְבְּשׁוּםto be slavesלַעֲבָדִיםand slave women.וְלִשְׁפָחוֹת
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashuvu” appearsslave
A person who belongs to a master and works for him, without freedom of his own.
Where else “avadim” appearsfemale slave, servant
Female slave, maidservant in the service of the lady of the house.
Where else “shefachot” appearslet go
To set free, release.
Where else “shilchu” appearsfree
Free: no longer a slave; also free from duties.
Where else “chafshim” appearssubjugate
To enslave others.
Where else “yichbshu” appears10And all the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant that each should let his slave and each his slave woman go free, so as not to keep them as slaves any longer; they obeyed and let them go.
11 · This verse (above)
12And the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,
