חָשׁוּב כְּמֵת

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Important as Dead

הגדרה (אנגלית)

Regarded as someone who is already dead. Figuratively: worthless. Their life is not a life; it is extremely hard.

("Four are counted as dead: the poor, the destitute, the deaf, and he who has no children" - Nadarim Sad 12:2, and so on: "The word...in the participation of artists, who fill the inner senses of the tongue with their senses and drip life into what is 'counted as dead'" - Bialik/ Heblei Lashan, and so on: "Wrapped in hunger and naked without clothing and their home "Even as a grave and a lamp are dimmed, and they are considered dead, but they have not yet been given to burial." - Agnon/ Elo Ve Elo, On the Wombs and the Grinder, 263)