עַבְדּוּת, (preced. wds.) slavery, servitude; status of a slave. Y. Kidd. I, 59ᵈ אחת בסוף שש עד שהוא בעַבְדּוּתוֹ (not בעבודתו) one declaration at the end of the sixth year, while he is still a slave by law. Pes. X, 5 (in the Passover night service) הוציאנו מע׳ לחרות he led us forth from slavery to freedom; Kidd. 22ᵇ. Hor. 10ᵃ כמדומין אתם ששררה … ע׳ וכ׳ you seem to believe that I place a rulership upon you (by appointing you to office), I place servitude upon you (ref. to I Kings XII, 7); a. fr.