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# mound

«mound» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a small hill or a pile of earth, stones or other things** — 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 mound, mounds)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mound is a small hill or a pile of earth, stones or other things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#m1)

2) A mound is a large pile of something, like a mound of washing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#m2)

3) In baseball, the mound is the raised spot where the pitcher stands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A mound is a heap of earth. Armies built siege mounds against city walls, and cities stood on old mounds called tells. Interpretation: Prophets use the siege mound as a sign of coming judgment. The "cities on their mounds" show that Joshua left most cities standing and burned only Hazor. In the primary lessons: In history, burial mounds were made long ago over graves. In science, ants and termites build mounds, and moles leave molehills. In everyday life, "a mound of" means a big heap. Phrases: "burial mound", "a mound of homework".

### examples

- But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only — that did Joshua burn. (Prophets JOS.11.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x1)
- And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mound, and I will raise siege works against thee. (Prophets ISA.29.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x2)
- Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company succour him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many souls; (Prophets EZK.17.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x3)
- The termites built a huge mound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x4)
- We climbed to the top of a grassy mound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x5)
- There was a mound of dirty plates in the sink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x6)
- The ancient burial mound is very old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x7)
- The pitcher stood on the mound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x8)
- Moles leave little mounds of soil on the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x9)
- On the mound sat the Cricket and took snuff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mound/#x10)

### note

Countable. Similar: heap, pile, hillock. Do not confuse with "mount" (to climb onto).

### In the corpora

- [Giant anteaters walk on their knuckles to protect long front claws, which rip open hard termite mounds and can fight off a jaguar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters/8/)
- [Example: a girl in Queensland sits down on a sandy mound for a picnic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/5/)
- [Near today's St Louis stood Cahokia, a city of perhaps 15,000 people about 900 years ago, with huge earth mounds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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