To return evil for good / bite the hand that feeds you (גָּמָל רָעָה, גָּמָל רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה, הֵשִׁיב רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה)
To return evil for good / bite the hand that feeds you (גָּמָל רָעָה, גָּמָל רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה, הֵשִׁיב רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה)

To return evil for good / bite the hand that feeds you

Commit an evil deed. Behave under the guise of goodness.

(Commit an evil deed. Behave with cruelty under the guise of goodness. (See 1 Samuel 24:17 above; also: "He said to his men, 'But to the liar I kept all that belongs to this one (the one who comes here to meet us), we kept this property, and now he has returned evil for good'" - Malbim 1 Samuel 25:21))

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

גָּמָל רָעָה, גָּמָל רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה, הֵשִׁיב רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה

Definition (Hebrew)

עֲשֵׂה מַעֲשֶׂה רַע. הִתְנַהֵג בִּכְפִיּוּת טוֹבָה.

(רְאֵה שְׁמוּאֵל א כַּד יז לְעֵיל, וְכֵן:"אָמַר לַאֲנָשָׁיו אַךְ לַשֶּׁקֶר שָׁמַרְתִּי אֶת כָּל אֲשֶׁר לָזֶה (הַהוֹלֵךְ פֹּה לִקְרָאתֵנוּ), שֶׁשָּׁמַרְנוּ רְכוּשׁ הַזֶּה, וְעַתָּה הֵשִׁיב רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה"- מַלְבִּי"ם שְׁמוּאֵל א כֹּה כא)

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