Like Gathering Abandoned Eggs (כְּאִסּוּף בֻּצִּים עֲזוּבוֹת)

Like Gathering Abandoned Eggs

Figuratively, as something easy to do; easily, without any effort.

("My hand reached the wealth of the peoples like a nest, and as one gathers abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the earth; and there was none that flapped a wing, opened its mouth, or chirped" — Isaiah 10:14, and likewise: "He resolved to pounce on them, on his enemies at the appointed time, and to gather them like the gathering of abandoned eggs" — Y. H. Brenner, Mechan uMichan)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

כְּאִסּוּף בֻּצִּים עֲזוּבוֹת

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּהַשְׁאָלָה בִּמְלִיצָה: כְּמוֹ דָּבָר קַל לְבִיצּוּעַ. בְּקַלּוּת. לְלֹא כָּל מַאֲמָץ.

("וַתִּמְצָא כַקֵּן יָדִי לְחֵיל הָעַמִּים וְכֶאֱסֹף בֵּיצִים עֲזֻבוֹת כָּל הָאָרֶץ אֲנִי אָסָפְתִּי, וְלֹא הָיָה נֹדֵד כָּנָף וּפֹצֶה פֶה וּמְצַפְצֵף"- יְשַׁעְיָהוּ י יָד, וְכֵן:"גָּמַר אֹמֶר לְהִתְנַפֵּל עֲלֵיהֶן, עַל אוֹיְבָיו בִּשְׁעַת שֶׁנָּתַן, וּלְאָסְפָּן כְּאִסּוּף בֵּיצִים עֲזוּבוֹת"- י.ח.בְּרֵנֶר/ מִכָּאן וּמִכָּאן)

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