חֲתַן דָּמִים

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Bridegroom of Blood

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A literary epithet for the circumcised infant (originally meaning: one is made a bridegroom through the blood of the foreskin).

("Then Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son's foreskin, and touched his feet, and said, 'Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me'" - Exodus 4:25 (Zipporah, Moses's wife, to her son), and also: "For our wild body, the bridegroom of blood, still burns beneath the mask of the smile and the garment" - Nathan Alterman / To the Elephants, B, and also: "And his voice trembles: / Come, my son, he says / Come, be at my side in the heights / ...and he calls him: / bridegroom of blood" - Balfour Hakak / Bridegroom of Blood)