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שִׁעְבֵּד(Shafel of עָבַד) 1) to subject, subjugate, surrender; to obligate, pledge. Gen. R. s. 44 (ref. to Gen. 15:13) ידוע שאני מְשעְבּדָןוכ׳ ‘knowing means that I will surrender them as slaves, ‘thou shalt know, that I will redeem them. Pesik. R. s. 15 לא כך … שהוא נְשַׁעְבְּדֵינוּ בשבעיםוכ׳ has not the Lord said, that he will make us the subjects of seventy nations? Ib. (read:) גותי אחר בא ומְשַׁעְבֵּד באחד ממנן כגון ששִׁיעְבְּדָה כל אומתו one Goth comes and enslaves one of us, that is as much as if she (Rome) had enslaved all of us; Cant. R. to 11, 8. Gen. R. s. 85 (ref. to Is. 66:7) קודם … מְשַׁעְבֵּד ראשוןוכ׳ before yet the first oppressor (of Israel) was born, the last redeemer was born. R. Hash. III, 8 (ref. to Num. 21:8) בזמן … ומְשַׁעְבְּדִין את לבם לאביהםוכ׳ when the Israelites looked upward and pledged their hearts to their Father in heaven, they were healed; a. fr.Part. pass. מְשוּעְבְּד; pl. מְשוּעְבָּדִים, מְשוּעְבָּדִין. Num. R. s. 58> שלא … אלא מש׳ לפני הארון they were not haughty, but bore themselves like servants before the Ark. Y.Hag. III, 79b שיהא הכל מש׳ להלכה so that everything be made subject to the law; a. e.נכסים מש׳, or משועבדין (sub. נכסים) mortgaged property, i. e. property bought from a person who owes a debt collectible from his landed estate in whatever hands it may be, opp. בני חורין property in the hands of the debtor. B. Mets.13b. Gitt.50b; a. fr. 2) to vex, persecute, attempt to destroy. Ex. R. s. 22 נראה … מְשַׁעְבְּרִין את ישראל בדברוכ׳ (not על ישראל) let us see how we can persecute Israel by means of something which the Lord cannot bring upon us in the same manner; Yalk. ib. 208 אם מְשַׁעְבְּדִים אנו אותם באשוכ׳ if we destroy them through fire, their God can bring fire upon us ; בואו ונְשַׁעְבְּרֵם במים (not ונשתעכדם) come, let us destroy them through water; Yalk. Ps. 786; a. e. Hithpa. הִשְׁתַּעְבֵּד, Nithpa. נִשְׁתַּעְבֵּד 1) (with ל) to be subjugated, be the slave or subject of. Gitt. IV, 4 עבד … אם לשום עבד יִשְׁתַּעְבֵּדוכ׳ a slave that was captured and redeemed, if he was redeemed as a slave, remains a slave; if as a freeman, he cannot be made a slave. Ib. 37b ישתעבד לרבו ראשון he is the slave of his first (original) master; לא ישתעבד … לרבו שני he is the slave neither of his first master, nor of his second master (his redeemer). Pesik. R. s. 15 במה … או שיִשְׁתַּעְבְּדו למלכיות which wilt thou choose? that thy children go down to Gehenna, or that they be subjected to successive empires? Sabb.88b אמר … לפרעה הִשְׁתַּעְבַּדְתֶּם (Ms. M. נִשְׁתַּעְבַּדְתֶּם) he (Moses) said to them (the angels), did you go down to Egypt? have you been slaves to Pharaoh? Midr. Till. to Ps. 78:32 (insert from Yalk. ib. 819) זה יעקב … שאילו עלה לא ירד עוד ולא היה לנו להִשְׁתַּעְבֵּד שיעבוד זה שאנו משועבדין (v. ed. Bub.) this refers to Jacob … for if he had gone up, he would not have gone down again, and we should not have to suffer the servitude to which we are now subjected; a. fr. 2) (with ב) to use as slave, enslave. Pes.118b מה הללו שנִשְׁתַּעְבְּדוּ בהן כך אני שלא נִשְׁתַּעְבַּדְתִּיוכ׳ if they (the Egyptians) who treated them as slaves, fare thus, I (Cush) who did not enslave them Gitt.40a פלונית … אל ישתעבדו בהוכ׳ that handmaid of mine, they (my heirs) shall not treat her as a slave after my death. Keth.111a השביע … שלא ישתעברו בהןוכ׳ the Lord adjured the nations not to oppress Israel too hard. Men.53b; Yalk. Jer. 289 (read:) ישתעבדו בהם ארבע מלכיותוכ׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. to Men. l. c., note) four successive empires shall treat them as slaves, each as long ; a. fr.(Yalk. Ex. 208, v. supra.