בין המצרים
Hebrew
editEtymology
editUltimately from Lamentations 1:3, where it is used to mean "between the straits", i.e. dire straits
Proper noun
editבֵּ֥ין הַמְּצָרִֽים • (bén hámm'tsarím)
- (Judaism) the Three Weeks (the period from the seventeenth of Tammuz through roughly the ninth of Av).