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# housetop

«housetop» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The flat roof of a house in the Land of Israel, where…** — 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

### meaning for a pupil

The flat roof of a house in the Land of Israel, where people could sit, pray, sleep or shout news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/housetop/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Housetops were flat and used as living space, and the Torah commands a fence around the roof so no one falls. The grass on roofs withers quickly, which became a picture of the wicked.

### examples

- What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops, (Prophets ISA.22.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/housetop/#x1)
- I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop. (Writings PSA.102.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/housetop/#x2)
- Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up; (Writings PSA.129.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/housetop/#x3)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he spoke with Saul upon the housetop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.226/)
- [What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.442/)
- [I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1778/)
- [Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2415/)
- [It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than in a house in common with a contentious woman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.597/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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