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# dunghill

«dunghill» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a heap of animal dung and rotting waste kept outside a farm** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (dunghills)

### meaning for a pupil

A dunghill is a heap of animal dung and rotting waste kept outside a farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dunghill/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A heap of waste; a symbol of the lowest place that God lifts the poor out of. Interpretation: Psalm 113 is part of Hallel, sung on festivals, and tradition reads it as God lifting up the humble. In the primary lessons: in tales a heap of filth where something unwanted is thrown; in lessons a place of mess and bad smells

### examples

- Who raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill; (Writings PSA.113.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dunghill/#x1)
- They that did feed on dainties are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. (Writings LAM.4.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dunghill/#x2)
- For in this mountain will the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the dunghill. (Prophets ISA.25.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dunghill/#x3)
- The cow was thrown out upon a dunghill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dunghill/#x4)
- The farm cat slept on the warm dunghill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dunghill/#x5)
- The rubbish was piled up like a dunghill behind the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dunghill/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [Who raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2080/)
- [They that did feed on dainties are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.126/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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