faithfulness

«faithfulness» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Being loyal and true to someone, keeping your promises — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (faithfulness, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Being loyal and true to someone, keeping your promises. tree →

2) (church, Bible) God's faithfulness means God keeps his promises and never leaves his people; Christians try to show faithfulness to God. tree →

3) Staying true to a partner in marriage. tree →

4) Being exact and accurate: «faithfulness to the original book». tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Means God's steady reliability and truth, and the loyalty people should return. Interpretation: Tradition reads "a God of faithfulness" as teaching that God's judgments are always just and His promises sure. In the primary lessons: In religion lessons faithfulness is a fruit of the Spirit and a quality of Ruth and of Noah; hymns praise «Great is thy faithfulness». In stories the faithful dog Greyfriars Bobby shows faithfulness. Phrases: «God's faithfulness», «faithfulness in marriage», «faithfulness to a friend».

examples

• The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is He. (Torah DEU.32.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. (Torah DEU.32.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Thy faithfulness is round about Thee. (Writings PSA.89.9, JPS 1917) tree →
• They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness. (Writings LAM.3.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• Thou hast commanded Thy testimonies in righteousness and exceeding faithfulness. (Writings PSA.119.138, JPS 1917) tree →
• The dog's faithfulness touched everyone. tree →
• Ruth showed faithfulness to Naomi. tree →
• The hymn «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» praises God. tree →
• Faithfulness means keeping your promises. tree →
• The film was praised for its faithfulness to the book. tree →
• Married people promise faithfulness to each other. tree →
• Pinocchio discovers the thieves and, as a reward for faithfulness, he regains his liberty. tree →

note

Uncountable. Adjective: faithful; adverb: faithfully («Yours faithfully» ends formal UK letters). Similar: loyalty. Opposite: unfaithfulness, betrayal.

In the corpora

• And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
• Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulness may enter in.
• And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the LORD.
• Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as Thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
• For the word of the LORD is upright; and all His work is done in faithfulness.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «faithfulness» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.