Thread of scarlet/ characteristic/ principal motif/ crimson thread (חוּט הַשָּׁנִי, עוֹבֵר כְּחוּט הַשָּׁנִי)
Thread of scarlet/ characteristic/ principal motif/ crimson thread (חוּט הַשָּׁנִי, עוֹבֵר כְּחוּט הַשָּׁנִי)

Thread of scarlet/ characteristic/ principal motif/ crimson thread

Red thread. In a question: a characteristic or fundamental quality. A line of thought.

("Behold, we will camp in the land of the hope of this second thread, which you will tie to the window through which you let us down" - Joshua 2:18 (the feet of Rahab), and so: "And with the second thread, which for the change of its head she tied to the east in Kir" - anchor/ in the blood of her days, and so: "In your troubled evening, in your poor way,/ you will find me passing by like him "The Second String" - Nathan Alterman/ A poem by Mahol, and also: "In the darkness, a second string is drawn in the landscape like a second string" - Nathan Alterman/ One of the Nights)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

חוּט הַשָּׁנִי, עוֹבֵר כְּחוּט הַשָּׁנִי

Definition (Hebrew)

חוּט בְּצֶבַע אָדֹם. בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: תְּכוּנָה אָפְיָנִית אוֹ יְסוֹדִית. קַו מַנְחֶה.

("הִנֵּה אֲנַחְנוּ בָאִים בָּאָרֶץ אֶת תִּקְוַת חוּט הַשָּׁנִי הַזֶּה תִּקְשְׁרִי בַּחַלּוֹן אֲשֶׁר הוֹרַדְתֵּנוּ בוֹ"- יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ב יח (הַמְּרַגְּלִים לְרָחָב), וְכֵן:"וּבַחוּט הַשֵּׁנִי אֲשֶׁר לְמַחְלְפוֹת רֹאשָׁהּ קָשְׁרָה אֶת הַמִּזְרָח בַּקִּיר"- עַגְנוֹן/ בִּדְמֵי יָמֶיהָ, וְכֵן:"בְּעַרְבְּךָ הַדָּאוּג, בְּחַדְרֵךְ הֶעָנִי,/ תִּמְצָאִינִי עוֹבֵר כְּמוֹ חוּט הַשָּׁנִי"- נָתָן אַלְתֶּרְמָן/ שִׁיר מָחוֹל, וְכֵן:"בְּהֶבְלֵעוּ בָּאַפְלוּלִית, מַשְׁחִיל שִׁנּוּי בַּנּוֹף כְּחוּט שָׁנִי"- נָתָן אַלְתֶּרְמָן/ אֶחָד הַלֵּילוֹת)

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