[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/space/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [S](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/s/) / space # space noun (space, spaces); verb (space, spaces, spaced, spacing) «space» 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. The area beyond the Earth's air where the planets and stars are: "outer space". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m1) 2. An empty area: "a parking space", "space to play". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m2) 3. Room, amount of area available: "There's no space." [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m3) 4. The gap between words or things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m4) 5. A period of time: "in the space of an hour". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m5) 6. As a verb, to put things with gaps between them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#m6) ### In the lessons In science, space has no air, so there is no sound and astronauts need spacesuits; the Earth, Moon, Sun and planets are in space. In maths, shapes take up space (area, volume). In writing, leave spaces between words. Phrases: outer space, space station, spaceship, personal space, take up space, make space. ### Examples - Astronauts travel into space. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x1) - There is no air in space. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x2) - Leave a space between words. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x3) - Is there space for one more? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x4) - Respect people's personal space. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x5) - Space the plants ten centimetres apart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x6) - The International Space Station goes around the Earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x7) - Find a space and sit down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x8) - He longed to soar through space. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/#x9) ### Note Space (outer space) has no air — not cold air, no air at all. Volume tells how much space a 3D shape takes; area tells how much flat space. "Personal space" is the space around your body. ## In Jewish tradition Often means a stretch of time ("the space of a month") or a gap between things, not outer space. Job says God hangs the earth over "empty space", and Ezekiel uses it for a part of the Temple wall. **Interpretation.** In Sefer Yetzirah, space is one of the dimensions of creation, along with the six directions. Its commentators see all of reality as shaped by God's letters. ### Examples - And Laban said to him: 'Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.' And he abode with him the space of a month. (Torah GEN.29.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/space/#x1) - And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.' (Torah GEN.32.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/space/#x2) - 15) According to the author, the space and six dimensions emanated from the ether. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/space/#x3) - He stretcheth out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth over nothing. (Writings JOB.26.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/space/#x4) - Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them. (Prophets 1SA.26.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/space/#x5) - to the space above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and on all the wall round about within and without, by measure. (Prophets EZK.41.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/space/#x6) ### Note Space (outer space) has no air — not cold air, no air at all. Volume tells how much space a 3D shape takes; area tells how much flat space. "Personal space" is the space around your body. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «space» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/space/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«space» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/space.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «space» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/space/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«space» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/space.html) on Mova free.