Unwillingly / joylessly

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Unwillingly / joylessly

Unwillingly / joylessly

With lack of desire. Reluctantly. Without pleasure (chemda meaning desire. The original meaning: without the love of others toward him).

("He was thirty-two years old when he reigned, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem, and he went without desire, and they buried him in the city of David, not in the tombs of the kings" – Chronicles II 21:20, about King Jehoram; and likewise: "And over my youth – they passed without desire / Upon these I called to mourn" – Shaul Tchernichovsky, They Will Look from Above the Stars; and likewise: "My mother’s portrait on the piano / Solving riddles and dreams / Even on days without desire / Gray days, days of limp hands" – Naomi Shemer, My Mother’s Portrait)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בְּלֹא חֶמְדָּה, לְלֹא חֶמְדָּה

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּחֹסֶר חֵשֶׁק. בְּאִי רָצוֹן. לְלֹא הֲנָאָה (חֶמְדָּה מַשְׁמָע חֵשֶׁק. מַשְׁמָעוּת הַבִּטּוּי בַּמָּקוֹר: בְּלִי אַהֲבַת אֲחֵרִים אֵלָיו).

("בֶּן שְׁלֹשִׁים וּשְׁתַּיִם הָיָה בְמָלְכוֹ וּשְׁמוֹנֶה שָׁנִים מָלַךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָם וַיֵּלֶךְ בְּלֹא חֶמְדָּה וַיִּקְבְּרֻהוּ בְּעִיר דָּוִיד וְלֹא בְּקִבְרוֹת הַמְּלָכִים"- דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב כא כ (עַל הַמֶּלֶךְ יְהוֹרָם בְּמוֹתוֹ), וְכֵן: "וְעַל נְעוּרַי- לְלֹא חֶמְדָּה חָלְפוּ-/ עַל אֵלֶּה קָרָאתִי לְאֵבֶל"- שָׁאוּל טְשֶׁרְנִיחוֹבְסְקִי/ יַבִּיטוּ מִמַּעַל כּוֹכָבִים, וְכֵן: "דְּיוֹקַן אִמִּי עַל הַפְּסַנְתֵּר/ חִידוֹת וַחֲלוֹמוֹת פּוֹתֵר/ גַּם בְּיָמִים לְלֹא חֶמְדָּה/ יְמֵי סַגְרִיר, יְמֵי רִפְיוֹן יָדַיִם"- נָעֳמִי שֶׁמֶר/ דְּיוֹקַן אִמִּי)

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