בין המצרים

Hebrew

Etymology

Ultimately from Lamentations 1:3, where it is used to mean "between the straits", i.e. dire straits

Proper noun

⁧בֵּ֥ין הַמְּצָרִֽים⁩ • (bén hámm'tsarím)

  1. (Judaism) The period from the seventeenth of Tammuz through roughly the ninth of Av.

Further reading
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.