אָבְדָה תִּקְוָתוֹ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To despair / To lose hope

הגדרה (אנגלית)

He has no more chance; lacks the ability to exist or continue in the future.

(“Then He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost; we are cut off.’” – Ezekiel 37:11; and: “There is assurance that as long as a man lives, he has hope. Once he dies—his hope is lost.” – Jerusalem Talmud, Berakhot 9a; and: “Our hope is not yet lost, the hope of two thousand years, to be a free people in our land, the land of Zion and Jerusalem.” – Hatikvah, the national anthem, by Naftali Herz Imber (originally published in 1886 in his poetry collection Barkai as: “Our hope is not yet lost / The ancient hope / To return to the land of our fathers / To the city where David encamped. As long as deep in the heart / The soul of a Jew still yearns / And toward the east, forward / His eye looks to Zion.”))