Elamur Dictionary⌕
☰
dictionaries / English / G / granary

granary

noun (granaries)

«granary» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

a building or store room where grain such as wheat is kept after harvest tree →

In the lessons

in tales the farmer keeps his harvest of grain in the granary

Examples

  • I have seen just such a seed in my father's granary. tree →
  • Now I have some of it in my granary. tree →
  • The mice ate the grain in the granary. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

A storehouse for grain, here part of Babylon that its attackers were to open.

Interpretation. Jeremiah's call to open Babylon's granaries is read as a picture of total destruction after its pride and cruelty.

Examples

  • Come against her from every quarter, open her granaries, cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left. (Prophets JER.50.26, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths

On Mova

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/granary/