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# stork

«stork» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a large bird with long legs, a long neck and a long…** — 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 stork, storks)

### meaning for a pupil

A stork is a large bird with long legs, a long neck and a long straight beak, that wades in wet places and eats fish, frogs and insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah the stork is a bird listed among those that are unclean and may not be eaten. The prophets and psalms also notice that it nests in fir-trees and that it knows the times of its yearly flying. Interpretation: The Hebrew name chasidah means "the kind one." The rabbis explain that the stork is kind to its own kind but still not a kosher bird. Jeremiah says the stork knows its appointed time while God's people do not know His ordinance, and the tradition reads this as a call to return to God. In the primary lessons: In science lessons about animals and migration, white storks fly long distances between Europe and Africa each year and build huge nests on roofs and chimneys. In old stories and cartoons, a stork is said to bring babies to families; this is a fairy tale, not true.

### examples

- and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. (Torah LEV.11.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x1)
- Wherein the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir-trees are her house. (Writings PSA.104.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x2)
- The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's? (Writings JOB.39.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x3)
- Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the ordinance of the LORD. (Prophets JER.8.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x4)
- A stork stood on one leg in the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x5)
- Storks build big nests on rooftops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x6)
- The stork caught a frog with its long beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x7)
- Storks fly south for the winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x8)
- In the cartoon, a stork carried the baby in a blanket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x9)
- The white stork has black feathers on its wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x10)
- We saw storks on our holiday in Spain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x11)
- A stork's legs are long and red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stork/#x12)

### note

Countable: a stork, storks. Myth: storks do not bring babies; it is an old story told to small children. Do not confuse with «stalk» (the stem of a plant) or «stalk» (to follow someone secretly), which sound similar.

### In the corpora

- [and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.273/)
- [and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.419/)
- [Wherein the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1840/)
- [The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1071/)
- [Storks come back to the same nest year after year and add new sticks, so old nests grow huge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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