a beast in man's guise/ bestial

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a beast in man's guise/ bestial

a beast in man's guise/ bestial

By extension: a coarse person whose behavior is fitting of an animal or a beast.

(“Man and beast You save, O Lord – for the wicked, or the fool, is like a beast in man's guise” – Radak on Psalms 36:7, and similarly: “To what shall I compare our faces at that hour and what likeness shall I draw for them? They were not human faces, but the faces of beasts and animals, beasts in the shape of men” – Sholem Aleichem / Seventy-Five Thousand, p. 65)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בְּהֵמָה בְּצוּרַת אָדָם

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: אָדָם גַּס שֶׁהִתְנַהֲגוּתוֹ כְּמוֹ הוֹלֶמֶת הִתְנַהֲגוּת חַיָּה אוֹ בְּהֵמָה.

("אָדָם וּבְהֵמָה תּוֹשִׁיעַ ה' – כִּי הָרָשָׁע, אוֹ הַכְּסִיל, הוּא כְּבְהֵמָה בְּצוּרַת אָדָם" – רד"ק תְּהִלִּים לו ז, וְכֵן: "אֶל מָה אֲדַמֶּה אֶת פָּנֵינוּ אוֹתָה שָׁעָה וּמַה דְּמוּת אֲעַרֵךְ לָהֶם? לֹא פְּנֵי בְנֵי אָדָם הָיוּ אֵלֶּה, אֶלָּא פְּנֵי חַיּוֹת וּבְהֵמוֹת, בְּהֵמוֹת בְּצוּרַת בְּנֵי אָדָם" – שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם / חֲמִשָּׁה וְשִׁבְעִים אֶלֶף, ס"ה)

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