בין המצרים

Hebrew

Etymology

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

Proper noun

בֵּין הַמְּצָרִים • (bén ham'tsarím)

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