הָיָה לְבָעֵר

ביטוי (אנגלית)

It was a fire.

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Burned. Consumed in fire. Turned into a fire.

("For if there is a fire in Cain, how long will Assyria destroy you?" - In the wilderness of Kad 22 (the oracle of Balaam), and so: "And yet in her tenth part she shall return, and she shall be to Baal as a grove, and as an oak that is in Shelekh" - Isaiah 6:13, and so: "When all that is left of you is lost, and you shall be to Baal/ for he is in the bosom of God and under his feet" - H.N. Bialik, and so: "All The moveable, every thing/ is ready to be burned" - Shaul Tchernikhovsky/ Baruch from Megenza, and so: "See how the hills of Eshtakad have been burned, and the Syrians have burned/ a foreign vine in my valley" - Nathan Yonatan/ from the Poems of Winter)