barn

Everyday

1. A barn is a big farm building for animals, hay, crops or tools. tree →
2. «Barn owls» often live in barns. tree →
3. «Barn dance» is a party with country dancing. tree →

In the lessons

In school maths: a place where animals or bales are counted; animals going in and out of the barn add and take away. In everyday life and stories: farm visits, «Charlotte's Web» is set in a barn, a red barn. Phrases: «in the barn», «barn owl», «barn dance», «hay barn», «couldn't hit a barn door» (very bad at aiming).

Examples

• There are 24 cows in the barn. tree →
• The barn holds 300 bales of hay. tree →
• 5 horses left the barn. tree →
• How many animals are in the barn? tree →
• The cows sleep in the barn in winter. tree →
• A barn owl lives in the old barn. tree →
• Wilbur the pig lived in a barn in «Charlotte's Web». tree →
• We went to a barn dance at the farm. tree →
• He went out to the barn and got hold of a flail. tree →

Note

Countable: «a barn». Maths: a place of the story; animals in = start + came in − left. Trap: legs in the barn depend on which animals.

In Jewish tradition

A storehouse for grain and crops.

Interpretation. The blessing in the barns is read as a promise that God will bless the work of one's hands. Rabbis taught that blessing rests on what is hidden from the eye and not counted.

Examples

• The LORD will command the blessing with thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and He will bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. (Torah DEU.28.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine. (Writings PRO.3.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• The grains shrivel under their hoes; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. (Prophets JOL.1.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree hath not brought forth — from this day will I bless you.' (Prophets HAG.2.19, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Countable: «a barn». Maths: a place of the story; animals in = start + came in − left. Trap: legs in the barn depend on which animals.