One of the People

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One of the People

One of the People

Figuratively: a simple person from among the people. Also: the literary pseudonym of Asher Zvi Ginzburg, a Jewish thinker and leader of "Lovers of Zion".

("And Abimelech said, 'What have you done to us? Why did one of the people lie with your wife and bring guilt upon us?'"—Genesis 26:10 (Abimelech to Isaac); and: "These matters are very foreign, and none can predict the future—/ 'Young people', 'One of the People', wonderful insights and aspirations..."—Shaul Tchernichovsky / Brit Milah; and: "By luck we do not know his name, and among heaps of swords / elder sons to our people, the people returns; in darkness we were born"—H.N. Bialik / To One of the People)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אַחַד הָעָם

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: אָדָם פָּשׁוּט מִקֶּרֶב הָעָם. וְכֵן: שְׁמוֹ הַסִּפְרוּתִי שֶׁל אָשֵׁר צְבִי גִּינְצְבּוּרְג, הוֹגֵה דֵּעוֹת יְהוּדִי מֵרָאשֵׁי "חוֹבְבֵי צִיּוֹן".

("וַיֹּאמֶר אֲבִימֶלֶךְ מַה זֹּאת עָשִׂיתָ לָּנוּ כִּמְעַט שָׁכַב אַחַד הָעָם אֶת אִשְׁתֶּךָ וְהֵבֵאתָ עָלֵינוּ אָשָׁם"-בְּרֵאשִׁית כו י (אֲבִימֶלֶךְ לְיִצְחָק), וְכֵן:"זָרִים הַדְּבָרִים מְאוֹד , וְאֵין מַגִּיד מֵרֹאשׁ הָעֲתִידוֹת ---/ 'צעירים', 'אֶחָד הָעָם', הַשָּׂגוֹת וּשְׁאִיפוֹת נִפְלָאוֹת..."-שָׁאוּל טְשֶׁרְנִיחוֹבְסְקִי / בְּרִית מִלָּה, וְכֵן:"בְּמַזָּל לֹא נֵדַע מָה שְׁמוֹ וּבֵין תִּלֵּי חרבות/ בְּנֵי זְקוּנִים לעמנו הָשֵׁב עִם חֲשֵׁכָה נוֹלַדְנוּ"- ח.נ. בְּיָאלִיק/ לְאֶחָד הָעָם)

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