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# joyfulness

«joyfulness» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The feeling of being joyful and happy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The feeling of being joyful and happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/joyfulness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it is the cheerful spirit with which God wants to be served. Interpretation: Tradition teaches that serving God with joy is a duty. The Torah warns that the people suffered because they lacked joy even when they had plenty.

### examples

- because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; (Torah DEU.28.47, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/J/joyfulness/#x1)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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