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# barn

noun (barn, barns)

«barn» 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

1. A barn is a big farm building for animals, hay, crops or tools. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#m1)
2. «Barn owls» often live in barns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#m2)
3. «Barn dance» is a party with country dancing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x1)
- The barn holds 300 bales of hay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x2)
- 5 horses left the barn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x3)
- How many animals are in the barn? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x4)
- The cows sleep in the barn in winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x5)
- A barn owl lives in the old barn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x6)
- Wilbur the pig lived in a barn in «Charlotte's Web». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x7)
- We went to a barn dance at the farm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x8)
- He went out to the barn and got hold of a flail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/#x9)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barn/#x1)
- So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine. (Writings PRO.3.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barn/#x2)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barn/#x3)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barn/#x4)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «barn» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barn/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«barn» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/barn.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «barn» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/barn/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«barn» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/barn.html) on Mova free.