יִמַּח שְׁמוֹ, יִמַּח שְׁמוֹ וְזִכְרוֹ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

May his name be blotted out, may his name and memory be blotted out/ May his name be forgotten (wiped out)/ Curse him! / Of accursed memory!

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A curse directed at a person or enemy, wishing that their name be erased and that no trace of their existence remain.

("May his end be to perish in another generation; may their name be blotted out" — Psalms 109:13; and also: "...may his name and memory be blotted out, and may his offspring be uprooted! He went outside and broke his neck" — Mendele Mocher Sforim, Travels of Benjamin the Third, "Koh"; and also: "Precisely here he will lodge and sleep, so that he may catch this one — the witch — may her name be blotted out" — Shaul Tchernichovsky, Be'utei Layla; and also: "For when the Baal Shem Tov, of blessed memory, was greatly prevailing against the sect of Shabbetai Tzvi and Jacob Frank, may their names be blotted out" — Agnon, Stories of the Baal Shem Tov, "Pekidah").