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# 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granary/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granary/#x1)
- Now I have some of it in my granary. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granary/#x2)
- The mice ate the grain in the granary. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granary/#x3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/granary/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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