Like any ordinary person (כְּאַחַד הָאָדָם)

Like any ordinary person

Like anyone else. Like an ordinary person.

("And Samson said to her: If they tie me with seven fresh cords that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man" — Judges 16:7 (Samson and Delilah), and likewise: "At once the Cossack recovered and became like any other man" — S.Y. Agnon / Tales of the Baal Shem Tov (The Cossack), and likewise: "And with uprightness of heart may you again be humble and submissive / like one of the grasses, like any other man" — Leah Goldberg / Ha'amnam)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

כְּאַחַד הָאָדָם

Definition (Hebrew)

כְּמוֹ כָּל אֶחָד. כְּמוֹ אָדָם רָגִיל.

("וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלֶיהָ שִׁמְשׁוֹן אִם יַאַסְרֻנִי בְּשִׁבְעָה יְתָרִים לַחִים אֲשֶׁר לֹא חֹרָבוּ וְחָלִיתִי וְהָיִיתִי כְּאַחַד הָאָדָם"- שׁוֹפְטִים טז ז (שִׁמְשׁוֹן לִדְלִילָה), וְכֵן:"מִיָּד חָזַר הַקּוֹזָק לִבְרִיאוּתוֹ כְּאַחַד הָאָדָם"- שַׁ"י עַגְנוֹן/ סִפּוּרֵי הַבֵּעשְׁ"ט, (הַקּוֹזָק), וְכֵן:"וּבְיֹשֶׁר לֵבָב שׁוּב תִּהְיִי עֲנָוָה וְנִכְנַעַת/ כְּאֶחָד הַדְּשָׁאִים, כְּאַחַד הָאָדָם"- לֵאָה גּוֹלְדְּבֵּרְג/ הָאָמְנָם)

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