בֵּין בְּצֵעֵי הַמָּיִם

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Between the water hollows

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The area between water channels, or between places where water accumulates (betzeʿ means a pond or standing water that is not deep).

("Ask, my son, ask! – Why are the legs of the Efrakim broad? – He said to him: My son, you have asked a great question – because they dwell between the water hollows" – Shabbat 31a; and likewise: "Frogs croaking from below, from the rivers, and from the streams, and from the lakes, and from the water hollows, and from every place they are" – Agnon / Takh’rikh shel Sipurim, 8; and likewise: "At the foot of the mountain he was born / by the stream / in winter he sang among the weeping plains / in summer among the lights of the water hollows / his bread sent upon the waters for fishing" – Nathan Yonatan / Ha’Ish HaHu; and likewise: "Below, between the water hollows, he walked here and there, and at the edge of his umbrella he drew something" – Chaim Be’er / Notsot, 40)