דַּלַּת הָעָם, דַּלַּת הָאָרֶץ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

The poor

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The common people; the poor.

("And he exiled all Jerusalem and all the princes and all the mighty men of valor... none was left save the poor of the land" - Kings II 24, and likewise: "Of the poor of the land he left many cooks for the vine-dressers and for the husbandmen" - Kings I 12; and likewise: "I had a mother, a woman from the simple and poor of the people" - Alexander Pen; and likewise: "And mention the tale of the daughter of the treasurer whom a man of the poor of the people loved, and her father said, 'She shall not be'" - S.Y. Agnon, In Her Days)