Solomon the king and the bee-a legend to the children- part 3
Posted by Eli Dahan on February 6, 2010 under Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Jewish Folklore | 
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After a while the queen of Sheba came to Jerusalem with a lot of gifts to Solomon and with a lot of question in order to see how wise and smart is the king. She asked him 77 different riddles and Solomon succeed to answer and solve all of them.
The last riddle was like this: she brought bouquets of flowers, all of them were seen like real flowers, but only one of them was the real one from the creation of The Lord. The queen of Sheba asked Solomon to find which flower ids the real from all of the flowers that have been there.
Solomon the king was embarrassed; he didn’t know the answer to this question. He felt bad not knowing the answer. Suddenly a sound of a small bee came into his ears , he saw the small bee that bite him near the window. He commended his servants to open the window and the bee stood on the real flower. This riddle has been solved as well.
The bee repaid her payback, the recompense is done. From this story there is a small proverb in the book of proverbs 13:13-
"בָּז לְדָבָר – יֵחָבֶל לוֹֹ"
"Whoso despised the word shall suffer thereby"
Main phrases of the post + transcription + translation
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Hebrew |
Transcription |
Translation |
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שִׁלֵּם |
šillēm |
Paid |
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חַלּוֹן |
halôn |
Window |
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נָבוֹךְ |
nābôk |
Embarrassed |
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רַע |
Ra’ |
Bad |
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זֵר |
zēr |
Bouquet |
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חִידָה |
hîdāh |
Riddle |
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