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# nothingness

«nothingness» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The state of being nothing; not existing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The state of being nothing; not existing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nothingness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says God made something from nothingness, and Kabbalah calls the first state "Ain."

### examples

- Non-existent ; the word is AIN, nothingness. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nothingness/#x1)
- And from Nothingness did He make something, and all forms of speech and every created thing, and from the empty void He made the solid earth, and from the non-existent He brought forth Life. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nothingness/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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