אֲסַפְסוּף

ביטוי (אנגלית)

mob / rabble / disorderly crowd

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A term for ignorant people. Masses. 'People of the land.' (Originally, 'אספסוף' means 'mixed multitude', referring to those who joined the people of Israel at the Exodus from Egypt).

("And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?" — Numbers 11:4. Also: "What nonsense do the Nazirites mutter? / Angry is the great rabble? / In the ghetto every face is gloomy / At the sound of a fallen leaf" — Shaul Tchernichovsky, Ballads and Yarmiza, The First Dead. Also: "And thus to be rolled, embraced in eternal love, / with all the rabble from the house of slaves / to the wilderness of choice" — Yehuda Amichai, Tanakh Tanakh With You With You and Other Midrashim. Also: "In the song of life he went out to battle / against a great and mighty rabble" — Avraham Broydes, In the Galilee (On a Hilltop))