vassal

Converse of object

• become: She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal.

Converse of subject

• hold: A fief was the land held by a vassal of a lord in return for stipulated services, chiefly military.

Adjective modifier

• loyal: Manasseh in the bible was a long lived wicked king, but in the Assyrian annals, he was a loyal vassal.
• faithful: It seems Hezekiah was at first a faithful vassal of the Assyrians whom he assisted.
• Assyrian: Hezekiah had to set Padi of Ekron free and he was reinstalled as an Assyrian vassal.
• new: Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiachin's uncle Mattaniah ( renamed Zedekiah ) the new vassal ( 2 Kings 24:17 ).
• Egyptian: Josiah supposedly got in the way and was killed at Megiddo leaving Judah now an Egyptian vassal.
• mere: In some ways the autocracy was a dictatorship which sat upon thousands of village republics that were mere vassals.

Modifies a noun

• treaty: Even before Harvey's suggestion others had seen a probable link between these oracles and the covenant regarded as a vassal treaty.
• king: Secondly - The image involves dominion The vassal king had another purpose in multiplying his image.
• state: Iran will try to create a vassal state, " the source says.
• status: During the reign of Sargon II, Hezekiah continued to accept Judah's vassal status.
• kingdom: If the treaty were to be broken the suzerain could declare that act as the agent of the deities and attack the vassal kingdom.
• form: Neither of these features provides conclusive proof that the prophets knew the covenant in the vassal treaty form.

Noun used with modifier

• sillie: Content James VI and I - God's sillie vassal?

Possessives

• king: These people then became the king's vassals, rather like tenants renting land from the owner.

Preposition: of

• king: For the king of England, in his capacity as duke of Normandy, was in theory a vassal of the king of France.
• man: We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes.