To go far

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To go far

To go far

To go to a distant place. By metaphor: to exaggerate, to take extreme actions or opinions.

("And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far, that ye may not transgress against me" - Shemot 8:24 (Pharaoh to Moses and Aaron), and also: "And when the people were far from going, he looked, and, behold, the bank of the river, which he was going up, was very high and very wide" - H.N. Bialik/ Megillat The man (7), and so: "We have gone far to strike, and behold, even here time is running out, / From the short and the long days" - Nathan Jonathan / From the Poems of the Call, and so: "A woman is a woman and her riddle, / But the solvers have gone far to strike: / Oh, how complicated is a simple woman - / And how simple is the complicated!" - Hananiah Reichman / Proverbs and Sayings / Daughters Eve)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

הִרְחִיק לֶכֶת

Definition (Hebrew)

הָלַךְ לְמָקוֹם רָחוֹק. בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: הַגַּזִּים. הַקָּצִין בְּמַעֲשָׂיו אוֹ בְּדֵעוֹתָיו.

("וַיֹּאמֶר פַּרְעֹה אָנֹכִי אֲשַׁלַּח אֶתְכֶם וּזְבַחְתֶּם לַ ה' אֱלֹהֵיכֶם בַּמִּדְבָּר, רַק הַרְחֵק לֹא תַרְחִיקוּ לָלֶכֶת הַעְתִּירוּ בַּעֲדִי"- שְׁמוֹת ח כַּד (פַּרְעֹה לְמֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן), וְכֵן:"וּכְשֶׁהִרְחִיק הָעֶלֶם לָלֶכֶת - וַיַּרְא וְהִנָּהּ שְׂפַת הַנָּהָר אֲשֶׁר הוּא עוֹלֶה בָּהּ, הוֹלֶכֶת וּגְבוֹהָה מְאוֹד" - ח.נ. בְּיָאלִיק/ מְגִלַּת הָאֵשׁ (ז), וְכֵן:"הִרְחַקְנוּ לֶכֶת וְהִנֵּה גַּם כָּאן אוֹזֵל/ הַזְּמַן מִתְקַצְּרִים וְהוֹלְכִים הַיָּמִים"- נָתָן יוֹנָתָן/ מִשִּׁירֵי קֹרְאָה, וְכֵן:"אִשָּׁה אִשָּׁה וְחִידָתָהּ,/ אַךְ הַפּוֹתְרִים הִרְחִיקוּ לֶכֶת:/ הוֹי, מָה סְבוּכָה אִשָּׁה פְּשׁוּטָה-/ וּמָה פְּשׁוּטָה הַמְּסֻבֶּכֶת!"- חֲנַנְיָה רַיְכְמָן/ פִּתְגָּמִים וּמִכְתָּמִים/בְּנוֹת חַוָּה)

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