To weep bitterly / "To cry with many tears"

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To weep bitterly / "To cry with many tears"

To weep bitterly / "To cry with many tears"

Wept bitterly. Great crying with large tears (shelish is an ancient measure of volume).

("You have fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink tears shelish" – Psalms 80:6; and: "The memory of your father's death, which I have now watered with tears shelish over the flowers growing on his grave" – Abraham Mapu, It Tzavua, 8; and: "I went to the field and wept with tears shelish before the Lord and performed great acts of self-affliction" – S.Y. Agnon, Stories of the Baal Shem Tov, The Defective Knife)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בָּכָה בִּדְמָעוֹת שָׁלִישׁ

Definition (Hebrew)

בָּכָה בְּכִי תַּמְרוּרִים. בְּכִי גָּדוֹל עִם דְּמָעוֹת גְּדוֹלוֹת ( שָׁלִישׁ הִנָּהּ מִדַּת נֶפַח קְדוּמָה).

("הֶאֱכַלְתָּם לֶחֶם דִּמְעָה וַתַּשְׁקֵמוֹ בִּדְמָעוֹת שָׁלִישׁ"- תְּהִלִּים פ ו, וְכֵן: "זִכְרוֹן מוֹת אָבִיךְ, אֲשֶׁר הִשְׁקִיתִי עַתָּה בִּדְמָעוֹת שָׁלִישׁ אֶת הַפְּרָחִים הַצּוֹמְחִים עַל קִבְרוֹ"- אַבְרָהָם מַאפּוּ/ עַיִט צָבוּעַ, 8 , וְכֵן: "הָלַכְתִּי לִשְׂדֵה וּבָכִיתִי בִּדְמָעוֹת שָׁלִישׁ לִפְנֵי ה' וְעָשִׂיתִי סִגּוּפִים גְּדוֹלִים"- שַׁ"י עַגְנוֹן/ סִפּוּרֵי הַבֵּעשְׁ"ט/ הַסַּכִּין הַפְּגוּמָה)

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