הִפְנָה לוֹ עֹורֶף, פָּנָה עֹורֶף

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To turn one's back on/ to give the cold shoulder to/ turn one's back

הגדרה (אנגלית)

He disappeared from him. He ceased to be with him or to support him. He turned to another path and changed from the one in which they had gone together before (in the source: Barach, she showed him the back of her head).

("How did they bear the burden of the night? How did the back of Moab turn to shame, and Moab became a laughingstock and a scorn to all around him" - Jeremiah 11:11, and so on: "When they came to the god of the law to summon him to the law, the back of Moab turned to them and made a mockery and a slander" - Sha'i Agnon/ Sifurei HaBe'Sh'at, (A man of the law), and so on: "If even today you turn to us "We will speak to the priest/ and swear to him that until the end of winter/ we will not be able to finish the building" - Naomi Shemer/ Love of the construction workers, and so: "And he looked at him again/ How in the morning the cold/ the summer turns the neck" - Haya Vered/ End of Summer)