storehouse

«storehouse» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a building where food, goods or supplies are kept — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a storehouse, storehouses)

meaning for a pupil

1) A storehouse is a building where food, goods or supplies are kept. tree →

2) A storehouse of something is a place or person full of a lot of it: a storehouse of knowledge. tree →

3) (Bible) In Bible stories storehouses hold grain for hard times, as in the story of Joseph in Egypt. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A storehouse is a building where grain and goods are kept. In the Joseph story, he stored grain during the good years and opened the storehouses in the famine. In Chronicles "the Storehouse" is a place in the Temple area guarded by Levites, and in the Psalms God lays up the ocean deeps "in storehouses." Interpretation: Tradition sees Joseph's storehouses as wisdom and planning, and God's hidden plan to save Jacob's family. The Levites guarding the Temple storehouse show that the Temple's treasures were kept with care, and the psalm is read as praise of God's power over the sea. In the primary lessons: In history and Bible lessons storehouses kept grain so people would not starve in famine. In figurative speech a library or a grandparent can be «a storehouse of stories». Phrases: a storehouse of, grain storehouse.

examples

• And the famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt. (Torah GEN.41.56, JPS 1917) tree →
• To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the Storehouse. (Writings 1CH.26.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; He layeth up the deeps in storehouses. (Writings PSA.33.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the Storehouse two and two. (Writings 1CH.26.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• The farmers kept the wheat in a big storehouse. tree →
• The castle had a storehouse full of food for the winter. tree →
• Christians read that Joseph filled the storehouses of Egypt before the famine. tree →
• Our library is a storehouse of knowledge. tree →
• Gran is a storehouse of old stories. tree →
• The squirrels' nest was a little storehouse of nuts. tree →
• You had better take the body to the storehouse. tree →

note

Countable noun. Close words: warehouse, store, barn, granary. «Warehouse» is the modern business word.

In the corpora

• He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; He layeth up the deeps in storehouses.
• To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the Storehouse.
• Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the Storehouse two and two.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «storehouse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.