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# tenon

«tenon» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A piece of wood cut to stick out so that it fits into a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A piece of wood cut to stick out so that it fits into a slot, used to join two pieces of wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tenon/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Exodus these are the pegs on the boards of the tabernacle that fit into silver sockets. Interpretation: The careful details of the tabernacle's construction show that building God's dwelling was done with exact skill.

### examples

- Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. (Torah EXO.36.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tenon/#x1)
- Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another; thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. (Torah EXO.26.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tenon/#x2)
- And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. (Torah EXO.36.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tenon/#x3)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Each board had two tenons, joined one to another.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1104/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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