Meaning of dødsengel | Babel Free

Definitions

angel of death

common-gender

Examples

“Bagefter fortalte han, at det var, som om lyset et øjeblik var blevet stærkere, klarere, og så var det, at Dødsenglen havde talt til ham. „Dine synder skal være dig forladt.””

Afterwards, he said that it was as if the light had, for a moment, become stronger, clearer, and it was then that the angel of death had spoken to him. Your sins shall be forgiven.”

“Det er dødsenglen der hviler på sine mørke puder, og stjernerne rundt om brænder som vokslys.”

It is the angel of death that rests on their dark pillows, and the stars surrounding them burn like wax candles.

“Det siges, at da den fromme rabbi Josua ben Levi skulle kaldes bort fra denne verden, sagde den Hellige til dødsenglen, at han skulle opfylde, hvad rabbi Josua i dødstunden ^([sic]) ville forlange af ham.”

It is said that when the pious rabbi Josua ben Levi was to be called away from this world, the Holy One told the angel of death to fulfill what rabbi Josua would demand of him in [Josua's] time of death.

“Saaledes blev Moderen i Sandhed til en Niobe, dog ramte Apollos dræbende Skud Sønner og Døtre uden Forskel, men her gik Dødsenglen Døtrene forbi og dræbte kun Sønnerne.”

Thus, the mother truly became a Niobe, and yet the killing shots of Apollon hit sons and daughters indiscriminately, but here, the angel of death passed by the daughters and killed only the sons.

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