To sit alone
Was lonely and forlorn. Was alone.
("How the city that once was full of people sits alone! She has become like a widow; she that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces has become a vassal" - Lamentations 1:1, and also: "to soothe her heart, seated alone / the Shulamite" - Rachel / "How Zion sits alone", and also: "In the drowsiness of tree and stone / captive in her dream / the city that sits alone / and in her heart a wall" - Naomi Shemer / "Jerusalem of Gold")
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
יָשַׁב בָּדָד
Definition (Hebrew)
הָיָה בּוֹדֵד וְגַלְמוּד. הָיָה לְבַדּוֹ.
("אֵיכָה יָשְׁבָה בָדָד הָעִיר רַבָּתִי עָם הָיְתָה כְּאַלְמָנָה, רַבָּתִי בַגּוֹיִם שָׂרָתִי בַּמְּדִינוֹת הָיְתָה לָמַס"- אֵיכָה א א, וְכֵן:"לִסְעֹד לִבָּה בָּדָד יוֹשֶׁבֶת/ הַשּׁוּלַמִּית"- רָחֵל/ אֵיכָה יָשְׁבָה בָּדָד, וְכֵן:"וּבְתַרְדֵּמַת אִילָן וְאֶבֶן/ שְׁבוּיָה בַּחֲלוֹמָהּ/ הָעִיר אֲשֶׁר בָּדָד יוֹשֶׁבֶת/ וּבְלִבָּהּ חוֹמָה"- נָעֳמִי שֶׁמֶר/ יְרוּשָׁלַיִם שֶׁל זָהָב)