בֶּן לוֹיָה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Escort / companion / follower

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A person who accompanies another. A partner in a journey or mission. Someone who is present with another during their travels.

(“Thus do they act with the sons of Loyah? (Rashi: the sons of Loyah — members of a group who accompany and follow)” — Chullin 7a; and likewise: “And at that hour they invited the sons of Loyah in the heights to receive her, and make room for her in the Garden of Eden” — Y. L. Peretz, Lo Tachmod, Part 1; and likewise: “Then she went out through the nearby passage and walked slowly after my son, her companion, in thought” — Deborah Baron, Golim, 94; and likewise: “I thanked Mr. B. that I had a son’s companion in the city” — Agnon, Oreach Natah Lalun, 338; and likewise: “My sons’ companions are with me in water and in wind / in raging storms / in every flood I descend or am at rest / in the wrath of the sea or in the silence of the Almighty” — Nathan Yonatan, Shehafun Shel Etz.)