A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/אכרעתא - אלהות
אכרעתא f. (כרע) prop. balancing, hence balances, scalcs, weighing. Pesik. B'shall. p. 82a וכ׳ דאכרעון בא׳ in the way they weighhed, they were weighed. [Cmp. Buber l. c. note 43.]
אכשרותא f. (כשר) propriety, proper use. Targ. Koh. X, 10.
אכתי (contr. of הי כענתא אד) a scholastic term in Talm. Bab., still, even now, yet. Meg. 2a וכ׳ ליה מבעי וא׳ and still the plural form is needed. Yoma 27a; a. fr. - מדאכתי since, up to that time. R. H.sh. 10b.
*אכתנא m. (אכת, v. P. Sm. 191; cmp. אכסא, עכס, עכסה, עכן) venomous, vindictive. Targ. Prov. XII, 28 Ms. Luzz. (v. Pesh., a. LXX b. c.); [some ed. אבהתנא, v. בהת; עותנא; h. text וכ׳ אל נתיבה]
*אכתר m. (v. preced.; ר format., cmp. סמוקר) greenish, blighted. Y. Dem. II, beg. 22b is there no rice in Hulla? הוא א׳ it is greenish.
*אכתריאל m. (כתר) [divine crown], pr. n. Akhtriel, a divine surname (attribute). Ber. 7a.
א״ל, אלב״ם Albam, a formula of permutation of letters wherein the first interchanges with the twelfth, the second with the thirteenth, &c. Num. R. s. 18 טבאל רמלא באלב״ם Tubel in Albam reads Ramla. Sabb. 104a.
אל־ a prefix, =על; e. g. אלתוסבראות (=האוצרות על) appointed over treasures, v. אי.
אל (b. h.) not, no (according to Talmud a milder form of prohibilion than לאא; v. Y. Pes. VI, 33b). Aboth I, 3. -- תקרי אל (abbr. א״ת), v. אלא. Taan. 11a וכ׳ יראה א׳ shall not live to see &c.; a. v. fr.
אל (h. h.; אול to turn) prep. to, toward. - Pl., with prefix מ a. suffix of pers. pron., of itself, of my (his cc.) own accord, on my (his cc.) authority. Yoma 5b מאלי לא not on my own authority. Orlah I, 2 מאליו העולה grow- ing spontane sly. - Y. Peah VII, 20b bot. its sacred character למדו מאליו they did derive from itself (i. e. from the wording of the law itself). -- Hence ממילא, v. מילא.
אל m. (b. h.; v. אלל) God. Shebu. 35a divine names which dare not be erased are E &c. Taan. 6b bot.; a. fr.
אלא buttress, v. אילא.
אלא I to lament, v. אלי.
אלא II m. club, bat. Targ. Cant. VIII, 5; v. אלתא.
אלא (אלא) (contr. of לא לא=אן אם) 1) if not, ex- cept, but, only. Tamm g. O. Ex. XV, 11 את א׳ לית none but thou, none besides thee; a. e. - Ber. V, 1וכ׳ א׳. . . . עומדין אאין one must stand up for prayer in no other disposition but that of humility. -- Snh 4a שלשה א׳ נתן לא he did only three times. Ber. I 1וכ׳ א׳ (אמרו) בלבד זו ולא and not only in this case they sald so, but wherever &c. Ib. 5a תלמדנו א׳ תלמדנו תקרי אל read not th'lamm'dennu (hou instructest hm) but th'lamm'denu (thou teachest us); a. . fr. -- 2) (ellipt.) (you cannot say anything ex- cpt . . .) but, a logical inference excluding all other explanations &c. Ib. 30b שנא לא א׳ but (the conclusion is proven) there is no difference. Ib. ר׳ אמר א׳ but, sa d R . . . . u e may derive it &c.; a. fr.
אלאופטרא, read קלאו׳, v. קלפטרא.
אלבינא, אלבינה (אלב to cut; cmp. חלף, חילף, חילפא &c.) a bundle of shoots, broom. Y. Meg. II, 73a (for b. h. מטאטא).
אלבנא m. (v. preced.) young shoot of the palm-tree, thin pointed branch. Pl. אלבנין, אלבנייא. Cant. R. to VII, 9 the palm . . . has no less אלבנין אילנין תלת מן (strik e out אילנין) than three nnew (cutting) shoots. Ib. in our place they call סנסנייה לאלבנייא the young shoots saus'naya (h. סנסנים). [Num. R. s. 3, beg., in Hebr. diction, אנבונין, fr. אנב, cmp. אב; prob. to be read אלבונין]
אלגביש m. (b. h., cmp. גביש Job XXVIII, 18, a. Targ. a. l.) hail, hailstone (crystal). Ber. 54b (playful etymol. איש גב על).
אלגומיא m. pl. (=b. h. אלגומים) name of a tree. Targ. II Chr. II, 7(8). [Ib. IX, 10; 11 אלמוגייא, reading the h. text as in I Kings X, 11.] V. אלמוג.
אלגוסין Tosef. Maasr. III, 14 Var. ed. Zuck., v. גריס.
אלדי, אלדים=אלהי, אלהים, v. אלוה.
אלה to curse, v. אלי.
אלה f. (b. h.; אלה, אל to point, cmp. ארר a. הר) implecation, curse. Sot. II, 5 (117a); a. fr. -- Pl. אלות. Ib. a. e.
אלה c. pl. (b. h.; v. preced.) these, those (cmp. הרי). Ex. R. s. 30 'elleh (and ths) alds to the preceding (caג- tinues), elleh (these) restricts. V. אעו.
אלה f. (b. h.; v. preced. ws.) terebinth. Shebi. VII, 5.
אלה Sabb. 90a Ar., v. אילא 3.
אלה f. (b. h. Josh. XXIV, 26; v. אלתא) [pointed, prominent] 1) lance, fork. Kel. XVI, 8 הא׳ חפוי, v. חפוי. Pes. 57a מאלתן לי אוי woe to me (I am afraid) of their fork (weapon). Sabb. VI, 3 (63a) ed. (Ms. אלא); Y. ibid. 8b (expl. דייקרן). -- 2) sign-pole, used in the barn as a. mark. Ib; Y. Maasr. I, 49a bot.; Tosef. Ter. III, 11 הא׳ משתיעקר (ed. Zuck. משיתעשר, corr. acc.) as soon as the sign-pole (fork) is removed (indicating that the grain is ready for use and priestly gifts).
אלה, אלהא, אילה m. ch. (=h. אלוה) God. Dan. III, 28; a. fr. - Targ. O. Deut. XXXIII, 26; a. fr. - Lev. R. s. 5, end רב אלה את Ar. (ed. אלוה). Y. B. Mets. II, 8c