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# hearth

noun (a hearth, hearths)

«hearth» 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 hearth is the floor of a fireplace and the area just in front of it, where the fire burns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#m1)
2. (literary) Hearth can mean home and family life, as in «hearth and home». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history lessons, the hearth was the centre of the home in the past: people cooked, kept warm and gathered there. In safety, keep toys, paper and clothes away from the hearth. In stories, sitting by the hearth means a cosy, safe, homely scene. Phrases: hearth and home, by the hearth, hearth rug.

### Examples

- The cat slept on the warm hearth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x1)
- Grandma swept the ashes from the hearth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x2)
- In Viking houses the hearth was in the middle of the room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x3)
- Keep the fireguard in front of the hearth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x4)
- The soldiers longed to return to hearth and home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x5)
- We hung our stockings above the hearth on Christmas Eve. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x6)
- The cakes were smoking on the hearth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearth/#x7)

### Note

Say «harth»; in the UK it rhymes with «path», not with «earth». Do not confuse with «heart» or «earth», which look similar. Countable.

## In Jewish tradition

In Ezekiel the "hearth" is the top part of the altar, the place where the sacrifices burned. In the Psalms it means a burning fireplace.

**Interpretation.** Ezekiel's vision describes a new altar with a hearth and four horns on top, and tradition reads this as the altar of the future Temple. The psalmist's bones "burned as a hearth" shows how great his suffering is.

### Examples

- For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. (Writings PSA.102.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hearth/#x1)
- And the hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof. (Prophets EZK.43.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hearth/#x2)
- And the hearth shall be four cubits; and from the hearth and upward there shall be four horns. (Prophets EZK.43.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hearth/#x3)

### Note

Say «harth»; in the UK it rhymes with «path», not with «earth». Do not confuse with «heart» or «earth», which look similar. Countable.

## On Mova

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