בָּכָה בִּדְמָעוֹת שָׁלִישׁ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To weep bitterly / "To cry with many tears"

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Wept bitterly. Great crying with large tears (shelish is an ancient measure of volume).

("You have fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink tears shelish" – Psalms 80:6; and: "The memory of your father's death, which I have now watered with tears shelish over the flowers growing on his grave" – Abraham Mapu, It Tzavua, 8; and: "I went to the field and wept with tears shelish before the Lord and performed great acts of self-affliction" – S.Y. Agnon, Stories of the Baal Shem Tov, The Defective Knife)