הִשְׁחִיר אֶת פָּנָיו (הַשְׁחָרַת פָּנִים)

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To cause shame /to put to shame (to blacken one's face/ insult)

הגדרה (אנגלית)

By metaphor: to bring a bad name upon someone. To slander or insult him. To harm severely his good name.

("Whoever darkens his face over the words of the Torah in this world, the Blessed One makes his face bright in the world to come" - Sanhedrin 10:1, and so: "His face became black like the rim of a pot" - Megla Ya'a, and so: "We are wandering here in the direction of many words of ridicule and exhortation according to the honor of Benjamin, so that they will not darken our faces in the book "The Words of the Days" - Mendelei Mos/ Masaot Binyamin Hashlishi 9, 6, and so on: "All the afflictions are black in the face of their wearers, except the affliction of the scoundrel, whose wearers are not touched by it, but his relatives and his relatives are touched by it more" - Agnon/ On the Caps of the Lock, Sifur Pashut, 54).