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# building

«building» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A structure with walls and a roof, such as a house…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a building, buildings); verb form (-ing form of «build»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A structure with walls and a roof, such as a house, school, shop or church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#m1)

2) The work of making houses and other structures: «building is hard work». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#m2)

3) (verb form) Making something by putting parts together: «we are building a den». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety: know the way out of a building, fire exits, and what to do in a fire drill. In maths, buildings appear in problems about floors, heights and shapes. In history, old buildings like castles tell us how people lived. Phrases: «a tall building», «leave the building», «building site», «building blocks».

### examples

- When people learned of their existence, they all left the original artisan and went to them, honoring them, and negotiating with them in their building enterprises " (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x1)
- So was he seven years in building it. (Prophets 1KI.6.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x2)
- 'The day for building thy walls, even that day, shall be far removed.' (Prophets MIC.7.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x3)
- And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. (Prophets 1KI.7.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x4)
- Our school is a big brick building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x5)
- The tallest building in town has twenty floors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x6)
- In a fire drill, we leave the building quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x7)
- We are building a tower with blocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x8)
- Keep out of building sites; they are dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x9)
- The library is the oldest building on our street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x10)
- The building has 6 floors with 4 flats on each, so 24 flats in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x11)
- The building is the Warton Almshouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/#x12)

### note

As a noun it is countable: a building, buildings. It is also the -ing form of «build» (build, built, building). «Building blocks» are toys, and also means the basic parts of something.

### In the corpora

- [So was he seven years in building it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.227/)
- [And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.228/)
- [And it came to pass, when Baasa heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.576/)
- ['The day for building thy walls, even that day, shall be far removed.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.109/)
- [Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and harried them while they were building,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.99/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «building» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/building/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.