man of strife, man of quarrels

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man of strife, man of quarrels

man of strife, man of quarrels

A person who habitually quarrels with others. A person who incites strife.

("Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me." - Jeremiah 15:10; also: "It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a contentious and angry woman." - Proverbs 21:19; also: "And it was when they finished eating the grain / a woman of quarrels and a house of a friend / and the young man turned to the way of his border" - Yitzhak Ibn Sahula (The Fable, 13); also: "This was only a pretext to distance me for a little while from the guardianship of mother and that quarrelsome woman" - H. Bar / Feathers, 79)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אִישׁ מָדוֹן, אִישׁ מְדָנִים

Definition (Hebrew)

אָדָם הַנּוֹהֵג לָרִיב עִם אֲחֵרִים. אָדָם הַמְּחַרְחֵר רִיב.

("אוֹי לִי אִמִּי כִּי יְלִדְתִּנִי אִישׁ רִיב וְאִישׁ מָדוֹן לְכָל הָאָרֶץ לֹא נָשִׁיתִי וְלֹא נָשׁוּ בִי כֻּלֹּה מְקַלְלַוְנִי"- יִרְמְיָהוּ טוּ י, וְכֵן:"טוֹב שֶׁבֶת בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר מֵאֵשֶׁת מִדְיָנִים וָכָעַס"-מִשְׁלֵי כא יט, וְכֵן:"וַיְהִי כַּאֲשֶׁר כִּלּוּ לֶאֱכֹל אֶת הַשֶּׁבֶר/ אֵשֶׁת מְדָנִים וּבַיִת חָבֵר/ וְיַפָּן הַבָּחוּר אֶל דֶּרֶךְ גְּבוּלוֹ"- יִצְחָק אֶבֶן סהולה (הָאֶה י"ג )/ אָמְרוּ כִּי הָיָה בְּאַשְׁדּוֹד, וְכֵן:"לֹא הָיְתָה זוֹ אֶלָּא אֲמַתְלָא לְהַרְחִיקֵנִי לְשָׁעָה קַלָּה מֵאַפּוֹטְרוֹפְּסוּת שֶׁל אִמָּא וְשֶׁל אֵשֶׁת הַמְּדָנִים הַהִיא"-ח.בְּאֵר/ נוֹצוֹת, 79)

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