אֵיתָנֵי עוֹלָם

ביטוי (אנגלית)

the Mighty Ancients

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The powerful forces of nature. A term for the most important or strongest people.

("Balaam said to Jethro: Keni, you were not with us in that counsel, who placed you among the Mighty Ancients?" - Sanhedrin 106a; and: "Zeide speaks about the Mighty Ancients and the founders of the earth like our father Abraham and Rabbi Akiva, and not about simple Jews like me" - H. Bar, To the Place Where the Wind Goes, 74)