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# shelter

«shelter» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a place that keeps you safe from rain, cold, sun or danger** — 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, verb (shelter, shelters, sheltered, sheltering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shelter is a place that keeps you safe from rain, cold, sun or danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#m1)

2) An animal shelter looks after lost or unwanted pets until they get new homes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#m2)

3) A shelter is also a place where people without a home can sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#m3)

4) To shelter is to stay somewhere safe, or to keep someone safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Means a place of safety from storm, danger or enemies. The psalmists often use it for God as a refuge, while in Isaiah the shelter in Egypt turns out to be false. Interpretation: Tradition reads the prophets as teaching that true shelter comes from trusting God, not from alliances with powerful nations. In the primary lessons: Science and safety: people and animals need shelter, food and water; shelter from a storm; a bus shelter. In maths: animals in a shelter counted, adopted or brought in — adopted leave (subtract), new ones arrive (add). Stories: building a shelter in the woods.

### examples

- I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.' (Writings PSA.55.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x1)
- They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. (Writings JOB.24.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x2)
- Therefore shall the stronghold of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your confusion. (Prophets ISA.30.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x3)
- The animal shelter has 24 dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x4)
- 7 dogs were adopted from the shelter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x5)
- The shelter got 5 new cats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x6)
- How many animals are in the shelter now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x7)
- We waited in the bus shelter until the rain stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x8)
- The scouts built a shelter from branches and leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x9)
- During a storm, shelter inside a strong building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x10)
- Sheep shelter behind the hedge from the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x11)
- At nightfall they took shelter in a thick wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shelter/#x12)

### note

Countable noun and regular verb. Animals adopted leave (subtract), new ones arrive (add). Trap: none. «Shelter from» the rain; «take shelter».

### In the corpora

- [Therefore shall the stronghold of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your confusion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.620/)
- [I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.900/)
- [They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.628/)
- [Donkey coats are not waterproof like horses' coats, so donkeys need shelter from the rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/7/)
- [Brown rats live wherever people live; they eat our waste and shelter in drains, sewers and buildings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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