Disgust/ loathing/ detestation

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Disgust/ loathing/ detestation

Disgust/ loathing/ detestation

Repulsive. Arousing revulsion. By metaphor: an expression that conveys disgust or abhorrence from an act or a particular situation.

("No eye showed compassion towards you... and you were cast forth into the open field in your loathing on the day you were born" - Ezekiel 16:5, and likewise: "The contemptible instigation of Peppercorn, who plotted to also win the heart of Roychlin, stirred in him only disgust" - S. Dovnov / Words of the Days of the Eternal People, 419, and also: "Do not pay heed to boredom, confusion of the mind, and disgust of the soul; this is the well-known malady of the sea" - Mendel Moshe / The Journeys of Benjamin the Third, 28)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

גֹּעַל נֶפֶשׁ

Definition (Hebrew)

מַגְעִיל. מְעוֹרֵר בְּחִילָה. בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: בִּטּוּי הַמְּבַטֵּא סְלִידָה אוֹ תִּעוּב מִמַּעֲשֶׂה אוֹ מַצָּב מְסֻיָּם.

("לֹא חָסָה עָלַיִךְ עַיִן...ְ וַתֻּשְׁלְכִי אֶל פְּנֵי הַשָּׂדֶה בְּגֹעַל נַפְשֵׁךְ בְּיוֹם הֻלֶּדֶת אֹתָךְ"- יְחֶזְקֵאל טז ה, וְכֵן:"הַהֲסָתָה הַבְּזוּיָה שֶׁל פֶּפֶּרְקוֹרֶן, שֶׁזָּמַם לִקְנוֹת גַּם אֶת לֵב רוֹיְכְלִין, עוֹרְרָה אֶצְלוֹ רַק גֹּעַל נֶפֶשׁ"- ש.דּוֹבְנוֹב/ דִּבְרֵי יְמֵי עַם עוֹלָם, תט"ז, וְכֵן:"אַל תַּשְׁגִּיחַ לְשִׁעֲמוּם וּבִלְבּוּל הַמֹּחַ וְגֹעַל הַנֶּפֶשׁ, זוֹ הִיא מַחֲלַת הַיָּם הַיְּדוּעָה"-מֶנְדֵּלֵי מו"ס/ מַסְּעוֹת בִּנְיָמִין הַשְּׁלִישִׁי, עח)

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