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# childlessness

«childlessness» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the state of having no children** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

the state of having no children [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/childlessness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It appears in the Sefer Yetzirah as the opposite of fruitfulness. Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah sets each good thing against its opposite, such as wisdom and foolishness. These pairs show how the world is made of opposites held in balance.

### examples

- The antithesis of wisdom is foolishness; of wealth, poverty; of fruitfulness, childlessness; of life, death; of dominion, dependence; of peace, war; and of beauty, ugliness. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/childlessness/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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