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ביטוי (אנגלית)

Receptacle / Container / Repository

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A place for receiving liquid or another substance; an empty capacity that allows material to be contained within it.

("A lamp that has a receptacle for oil is impure" – Kelim 2:4; and: "The sages of inquiry disagreed. Some say that the essence of the body’s construction derives solely from the male seed, and that the female has no seed at all, only a fluid emitted at the time of intercourse, and that fluid is like a receptacle and a nurturing vessel for the seed, from which the seed draws nourishment… like soil for seed sown in the ground, for the essence of the plant comes from the seed" – Torat HaMinḥa, Tazria, sermon 44; and: "With the entry of the new ‘material,’ its receptacle will naturally expand as well, and we shall not have literature that is national and not national" – Bialik, HaSefer HaIvri; and: "And a marble column was fixed there, with a receptacle for oil at its top" – Agnon, Elu Ve-Elu, ‘The Lighting’, p. 373)