Like nothing and like zero, like nothing and like zero compared with.../ as naught/ valueless/ worthless (כְּאַיִן וּכְאֶפֶס, כְּאַיִן וּכְאֶפֶס לְעֻומַּת...)

Like nothing and like zero, like nothing and like zero compared with.../ as naught/ valueless/ worthless

Nothing; something of no value compared with something else.

("You will seek them and not find them; the men who contend with you shall be like nothing and like zero, the men of your war" — Isaiah 41:12, and likewise: "The love of Jonathan and David? Oh, my beloved, I erred, my village; it too is like nothing and like zero beside my love" — Shaul Tchernichovsky / Mordechai Hapoidovkai, Second Poem)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

כְּאַיִן וּכְאֶפֶס, כְּאַיִן וּכְאֶפֶס לְעֻומַּת...

Definition (Hebrew)

כִּכְלוּם. כְּדָבָר חֲסַר עֵרֶךְ לְעֻומַּת מַשֶּׁהוּ אַחֵר.

("תְּבַקְשֵׁם וְלֹא תִמְצָאֵם אַנְשֵׁי מַצֻּתֶךָ יִהְיוּ כְאַיִן וּכְאֶפֶס אַנְשֵׁי מִלְחַמְתֶּךָ"- יְשַׁעְיָהוּ מָא יב, וְכֵן:"אַהֲבַת יוֹנָתָן וְדָוִד? הוֹי יְדִידָתִי, שָׁגִיתִי,/כַּפְרִי, גַּם הִיא כְּאַיִן וּכְאֶפֶס מוּל אַהֲבָתִי"- שָׁאוּל טְשֶׁרְנִיחוֹבְסְקִי/ מָרְדְּכַי הַפּוּדוֹבְקָאִי,שִׁיר שֵׁנִי)

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