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# woeful

«woeful» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Full of sorrow or sadness** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more woeful, most woeful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Full of sorrow or sadness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/woeful/#m1)

2) Very bad or poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/woeful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means a day of disaster and calamity. The prophet says he did not wish for it to come upon his people. Interpretation: Jeremiah insists he was a faithful messenger who only spoke the words God gave him, even when they foretold doom. In the primary lessons: In tales it describes a sad fate or punishment, or a poor showing.

### examples

- As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after Thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; Thou knowest it; that which came out of my lips was manifest before Thee. (Prophets JER.17.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/woeful/#x1)
- Her woeful punishment was hard to bear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/woeful/#x2)
- The dog gave a woeful howl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/woeful/#x3)
- The team played woeful football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/woeful/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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