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