בין המצרים

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Hebrew[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Proper noun[edit]

בֵּ֥ין הַמְּצָרִֽים • (bén hámm'tsarím)

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

Further reading[edit]

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