Pungent (stinging) words/ biting (mordant) remarks

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Pungent (stinging) words/ biting (mordant) remarks

Pungent (stinging) words/ biting (mordant) remarks

Speech expressed in a forceful tone (in the source: stinging or penetrating words. A porcupine quill is an iron spike found at the tip of a cattle prod).

("The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings given by one shepherd" - Ecclesiastes 12:11, and likewise: "And from there thus also their literature in essence is nothing but literature of war, and their song is the song of a man of the army, not of a soldier or a spasm—but words like goads and verses like nails firmly embedded" - Bialik / Our Young Poetry)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

דְּבָרִים כְּדוֹרְבָנוֹת

Definition (Hebrew)

דִּבּוּרִים בְּרוּרִים אוֹ טְעָנוֹת מוֹחֲצוֹת וִישִׁירוּת.דִּבּוּר הַנֶּאֱמָר בְּטוֹן תַּקִּיף (בַּמָּקוֹר: דְּבָרִים עוֹקְצִים אוֹ חוֹדְרִים. דֻּרְבַּן הִנּוֹ חֹד בַּרְזֶל הַנִּמְצָא בִּקְצֵה מְלַמֵּד הַבַּקָּר).

("דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים כַּדָּרְבֹנוֹת וּכְמַשְׂמְרוֹת נְטוּעִים בַּעֲלֵי אֲסֻפּוֹת נִתְּנוּ מֵרֹעֶה אֶחָד"- קֹהֶלֶת יב יָא, וְכֵן:"וּמִשָּׁם כָּךְ גַּם סַפָּרוּתָם בְּעִקָּרָהּ אֵינָהּ אֶלָּא סִפְרוּת שֶׁל מִלְחָמָה וְשִׁירָתָם הִיא שִׁירַת אִישׁ-הַצָּבָא, לֹא כְּחָל וְלֹא פִּרְכּוּס- אֶלָּא דְּבָרִים כְּדָרְבָּנוֹת וּפְסוּקִים כְּמַסְמְרוֹת נְטוּעִים"-בְּיָאלִיק/ שִׁירָתֵנוּ הַצְּעִירָה)

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