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ביטוי (אנגלית)

to think to oneself/to meditate

הגדרה (אנגלית)

To think to oneself; to contemplate or meditate inwardly.

("And David said to himself, 'There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines, and Saul will despair of me...'" - 1 Samuel 27:1; also: "And I said in my heart, as it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity" - Ecclesiastes 2:15; also: "And I said in my heart: tonight I will renew my youth like an eagle, and I will soar with eagle’s wings, and this is a night of vigil" - Judah Alharizi (12th century), Marriage of an Ugly Woman; also: "I said to myself, surely as his reward increases, so does his faithfulness, new every morning" - Abraham Mapu, Painted Vulture, 18; also: "I returned home and rejoiced that fate did not strike at the seminary, and I did not say to myself 'his staff of bread is broken'" - S.Y. Agnon, In the Prime of Her Life)