בְּלֹא חֶמְדָּה, לְלֹא חֶמְדָּה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Unwillingly / joylessly

הגדרה (אנגלית)

With lack of desire. Reluctantly. Without pleasure (chemda meaning desire. The original meaning: without the love of others toward him).

("He was thirty-two years old when he reigned, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem, and he went without desire, and they buried him in the city of David, not in the tombs of the kings" – Chronicles II 21:20, about King Jehoram; and likewise: "And over my youth – they passed without desire / Upon these I called to mourn" – Shaul Tchernichovsky, They Will Look from Above the Stars; and likewise: "My mother’s portrait on the piano / Solving riddles and dreams / Even on days without desire / Gray days, days of limp hands" – Naomi Shemer, My Mother’s Portrait)