Words of sympathy/ condoling words

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Words of sympathy/ condoling words

Words of sympathy/ condoling words

Utterances whose purpose is to comfort and to soothe.

("And the Lord answered the angel that spoke to me with good words, comforting words" - Zechariah 1:13, and also: "And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. To appease them, seeing that they were ashamed, he comforted them, and they were not appeased by words of consolation until he wept over them" - Shekol Tov (Buber) Bereishit, chapter 40, and also: "And he returned and said to them words of comfort: Who is a God like You, who forgives iniquity and turns back mercy to us" - Midrash Tannaim L’dvarim, chapter 33, and also: "We looked at this and that, and awaited to hear from this or that words of consolation" - Agnon, ‘Ad Hena’, 101, and also: "With what can he be saved? He himself has nothing but words of comfort, and by these the Jew will not repay his debt to the profligate" - Mordechai ben Yechezkel, Sefer HaMa'asiyot, fourth part, Sixty Red Gold, 183)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

דִּבְרֵי נֶחָמָה, דִּבְרֵי נִחוּמִים, דִּבְרֵי תַּנְחוּמִים

Definition (Hebrew)

דִּבּוּרִים שֶׁמַּטְּרָתָם לְנַחֵם וּלְהַרְגִּיעַ.

("וַיַּעַן ה' אֶת הַמַּלְאָךְ הַדֹּבֵר בִּי דְּבָרִים טוֹבִים דְּבָרִים נִחֻמִים"- זְכַרְיָה א יג, וְכֵן:"וַיְנַשֵּׁק לְכָל אֶחָיו וַיֵּבְךְּ עֲלֵיהֶם. כְּדֵי לְפַיְּסָם שֶׁרָאָה אוֹתָן מִתְבַּיְּשִׁין הִמְנָנוּ וְלֹא הָיוּ מִתְפַּיְּסִין בְּדִבְרֵי נִחוּמִין עַד שֶׁבָּכָה עֲלֵיהֶם"- שֶׁכָּל טוֹב (בּוּבֶּר) בְּרֵאשִׁית פֶּרֶק מָה, וְכֵן:"וְחָזַר וְאָמַר לָהֶם דִּבְרֵי נֶחָמָה: מִי אֵל כָּמוֹךָ נֹשֵׂא עָוֹן יָשׁוּב יְרַחֲמֵנוּ"- מִדְרַשׁ תַּנָּאִים לִדְבָרִים פֶּרֶק לג, וְכֵן:"הִבַּטְנוּ זֶה עַל זֶה וְצָפִינוּ לִשְׁמֹעַ זֶה מִזֶּה דִּבְרֵי תַּנְחוּמִין"- עַגְנוֹן/ עַד הֵנָּה, 101, וְכֵן:"בְּמָה יוּכַל לְהוֹשִׁיעַ לוֹ? הוּא בְּעַצְמוֹ אֵין לוֹ רַק דִּבְרֵי נֶחָמָה, וּבְאֵלֶּה לֹא יְשַׁלֵּם הַיְּהוּדִי אֶת חוֹבוֹ לִפְרִיץ"- מָרְדְּכַי בֶּן יְחֶזְקֵאל/ סֵפֶר הַמַּעֲשִׂיּוֹת חֵלֶק רְבִיעִי, שִׁשִּׁים אֲדֻמִּים זָהָב, 183)

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