Escort / companion / follower

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Escort / companion / follower

Escort / companion / follower

A person who accompanies another. A partner in a journey or mission. Someone who is present with another during their travels.

(“Thus do they act with the sons of Loyah? (Rashi: the sons of Loyah — members of a group who accompany and follow)” — Chullin 7a; and likewise: “And at that hour they invited the sons of Loyah in the heights to receive her, and make room for her in the Garden of Eden” — Y. L. Peretz, Lo Tachmod, Part 1; and likewise: “Then she went out through the nearby passage and walked slowly after my son, her companion, in thought” — Deborah Baron, Golim, 94; and likewise: “I thanked Mr. B. that I had a son’s companion in the city” — Agnon, Oreach Natah Lalun, 338; and likewise: “My sons’ companions are with me in water and in wind / in raging storms / in every flood I descend or am at rest / in the wrath of the sea or in the silence of the Almighty” — Nathan Yonatan, Shehafun Shel Etz.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בֶּן לוֹיָה

Definition (Hebrew)

אָדָם הַמִּתְלַוֶּה לְאַחֵר. שֻׁתָּף לַהֲלִיכָה בְּצַוְתָּא. מִי שֶׁנִּמְצָא עִם אַחֵר בִּנְסִיעוֹתָיו.

("כָּךְ עוֹשִׂים לִבְנֵי לְוִיָּה? (רָשִׁ"י: לִבְנֵי לוֹיָה- לִבְנֵי חֲבוּרָה שֶׁמְּנִיחָן וְהוֹלֵךְ)"- חֻלִּין ז ע"א, וְכֵן:"וּבְאוֹתָהּ שָׁעָה הִזְמִינוּ לָהּ בְּנֵי לוֹיָה בַּמְּרוֹמִים,לְקַבָּלַת פָּנִים,וּמְפַנִּים לָהּ מָקוֹם בְּגַן עֵדֶן"- י.ל.פֶּרֶץ/ לֹא תַּחְמֹד, קַמָּא, וְכֵן:"וְאָז יָצְאָה דֶּרֶךְ הַמָּבוֹא הַקָּרוֹב וְצָעֲדָה אַחֲרֵי בְּנִי לְוָיָתָהּ לְאַט,מִתּוֹךְ הִרְהוּר"- דְּבוֹרָה בָּרוֹן/ גּוֹלִים, 94, וְכֵן:"הוֹדֵיתִי לוֹ לְמַר ב"ח שֶׁהָיָה לִי בֶּן לוֹיָה בָּעִיר"- עַגְנוֹן/ אוֹרֵחַ נָטָה לָלוּן, 338, וְכֵן:"בְּנֵי לְוָיָה שֶׁלִּי בְּמַיִם וּבְרוּחַ/ בנייגרה פוֹלְס, בְּשַׁאַג אֲשָׁדִים/ בְּכָל אֶשֶׁד אֶדֹּד אוֹ שֶׁאָנוּחַ/ בְּזַעַף יָם אוֹ בִּשְׁתִיקַת שַׁדַּי"-נָתָן יוֹנָתָן/ שֶׁחָפוּן שֶׁל עֵץ)

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