tenon
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
A piece of wood cut to stick out so that it fits into a slot, used to join two pieces of wood. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Exodus these are the pegs on the boards of the tabernacle that fit into silver sockets. Interpretation: The careful details of the tabernacle's construction show that building God's dwelling was done with exact skill.
examples
- Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. (Torah EXO.36.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another; thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. (Torah EXO.26.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. (Torah EXO.36.24, JPS 1917) tree →
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In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
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