A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/נקמן - נקף
וכ׳ הללו why these two udgments (nkamah in the plural; v., however, הופעה.]
נקמן m. (preced.) revengeful. Gen. R. s. 99, end כשם וכ׳ ׳ שנחש as the serpent is revengeful, so was Samson.
נקמתא, v. נקמא.
נקסטן, v. פיקסינון.
נקע m. (cmp. נקיק) cleft, cavity, ravine. Kil. V, 4. Tosef. Erub. III (II), 3; a. e. -- Pl. נקעים. B. Bath. VII, 1. Ib. 103a; Kidd. 61a מים מלאים נ׳ ravines filled with water; v. נאגנא. - Y. Sabb. VII, 10a top הזתים שתחת ׳ cavities under olive trees; cmp. אוגיא.
נקף I (b. h.; cmp. נגף) to bring in close contact; to knock, strike against, wound. Hull. 7b וכ׳ נוקף אדם אאין no one on earth bruises his finger, unless it is decreed &c. Ber. 7b; Meg. 6b נוקפו שלבו מי he whom his heart smites (who has no clear conscience). Nidd. 3b, a. e. נוקפו לבו ופורש he may have scruples and separate himself entirely from his wife. Midr. Till. to Ps. IX, v. נקף. -- Maas. Sh. V, 15; Sot. IX, 10 הנוקפים those who knocked the sacri- fices on their heads; expl. ib. 48a; Y. ib. IX, 24a bot. -- Part. pass. נקוף; f נקופה; pl. נקופים, נקופין; נקופות. Tosef. Hull. III, 24 לקערה ׳ ביצים eggs cracked open into a. dish (Hull. 64a טרופות). Hif. הנקים, הקיף 1) to cause a knocking together. Sot. 22b (expl. נקפי) רגליו את המנקים he who knocks his feet against each other (by his mincing walka; Rashi; who causes his feet to strike against objects on the road); cmp. נקש. - 2) to bring closely together. Bekh. VII, 6 שמקיף, v. נקש. Nidd. X, 7 ומקפת and brings the vessel which contains the Hallah near the dough; T'bul Yom IV, 3, sq. Bets. IV, 5 וכ׳ שתי מקיפין ואין and you must not move two wine vessels together to put upon them &c. -- Esp. (ritual law, in examining an organic defect fonnd in a. slaughtered animal) to create a defect similar and near to the one found, in order to ascertain whether the latter was not the result of an accident after slaughtering; in gen. to compare. Hull, 50a מעים בבני מיפים we may compare defects in entrails in which was found a per- foration the origin of which is doubtful by making a hole next to it. Ib. בקנה מקיפין we may compare defects in windpipes; a. fr. -- Kidd. 40a השם בחילול מקיפין אין no comparing (balancing of sins against good deeds) iis granted when the Namme of God is profaned; (oth. interpret., v. נקף II). - Part. pass. מוקף brought near. Erub. 30b; Hull. 7a; a. fr. המ׳ מן שלא לתרום to take T'rumah out of a mass which is not in close neighborhood of those products which are to be redeemed; Bicc. II, 5; Ter. IV, 3; a. e.
נקף ch. same, to strike, knock, push down. Targ. Ps. CXL, 5. Targ. O. Ex. XXXIV, 20 ותתיקפיה ed. Berl. (oth. ed., a Y. ותנק׳; ed. Vien. ותנק׳ Af.; h. text וערפתו). Targ. Deut. XXI, 4 (O. ed. Berl. ויק׳, Af.); a. e. - Part. pass. נקיף; . נקיפא. Ib. 6 (O. ed. Vien. נקפתא). - Erub. 53b (enigmatic speech) וכ׳ ידאוון בכד נקפת עלת the ladle strikes against the jug, shall the eales fly to their nests (the wine is gone, shall the students go home)? Pa. נקף same. Targ. Ps. CXL, 12 (Ms. Pe.). -- Part. pass. מנפפף. Ber. 6a דמנקפי כרעי bruised feet; Yoma 53a, vv. נגף. Af. אנקף, אקף 1) same; v. supra. - 2) to knock the feet against each other, to mince (v. preced. Hiff.). Targ. Is. III, 16 (h. text טפף). -- 2) to compare defects (v. preced. Hif). Hull. 50a וכ׳ ולא אקקפינהו they compared tthem, andf they did not look alike. thpa. אתנמף to knock against, to stumble. Targ. II Esth. IV, 13. -- Yoma l. c. מיננקפין Ar. ed. Koh., v. eוג.
נקף II (b. h.; cmp. קיף a. נקב) to circle; to bore. - Part. pass. נקוף; f. נקופה. Gen. R. s. 100, v. גקב. Hif. הקיף 1) to surround. Erub. I, 8(1 5b) כליrב) והקיפוה בהמה and they surrounded it (he camp) with utensils of travel (wagons, saddles &c.). Ib. 9 וכ׳ שלשה מקיפין you may surround the camp with three ropes &c. (for Sabbath purposes). Ib. 53b וכ׳ גנות אותה שמקיפין מצאתי I found that gardens and orchards surrounded the town (making it inaccessible); a. fr. - 2) to cau4se to go around. Mekh. B'shall. s. 1 וכ׳ במדבר אעיפם Ishall make them go around in the desert forty years; ib. וכ׳ מעיפן הריני. Snh. VIII, 1 וכ׳ שיקים עד until he has grown hair around &c., v. זקן. - 3) to cut all around, esp. (with ref. to Lev. XIX, 27) to cut around the corners of the hair of the head. Naz. 57b אחד הניקף ואהד המקיף he who ciuts and he whose hair is cut are alike guilty; a. fr. -- 4) to sel on terms (v. תקופה), to lend. Ab. III, 16 מקיף החנוני the shopkeeper allows credit (the Lord is long-suffering). B. Kam. 79a top וה׳ גנב if he stole an animal and sold it on credit (and has received no pay); a. fr. -- Kidd. 40a וכ׳ מקיפין אין no oan on time is granted (no chance for repentance is allowed), when the Name of the Lord is profaned; (oth. interpret., v. גקף I. Hof. הוקף to be surrounded. Arakh. 33b; Meg. 3b שה׳ וכ׳ ולבסוף it was surrounded (a fort was built) and then settled; a. fr. - Part. מוקף; f מוקפת; pl. מוקפין; מוקפות. Ib. I, 1 וכ׳ חומה המ׳ fortified since the days of Joshua. Ib. 2b. Ib. 4b. Gen. R. s. 39, v. פתיל; a. fr. -- Mekh. B'shall., s. I מוקפות semicircular. Nif. ניקף to hape one's hair cut all around. Naz. l. c..,. v. supra. Ib. וכ׳ מיחייב דנ׳ היכא כל whenever he who has his hair cut &c. is punishable (is not a minor or a woman), the cutter is punishable; a. e. Pi. ניקף 1) to collect frui which remained in the crown of the tree(v. ניקוף II), to glean olives (corresp. to פאר, Deut. XXIV, 20). Gitt. V, 8 גזל שתחתיו מה . . . המנקף עני when the poor man does the gleaning on the top of the olive tree, what falls down under him is forbidden to any other person; Y. ed. גזל הזית בראש המנ׳ (corr. acc.; v. ib. 47c top). - 2) to cutt all around, trim. B. Kam. 119b; Tosef. ib. XI, 18היגי מנקפי those who trim shrubs. Ib. לנקף. . . השוכר וכ׳ עמו if one hires a laborer to help him trim &c.
נקף ch. same. Af. אקף as preced. Hif. Targ. Jud. XI, 18. -- Targ. Lev. XIX, 27; a. fr. Part. pass. מקף (מ־hh. מוקף, v. preced. Hoff). Ib. XXV, 31. Targ. Is. XXIX, 2; a. fr. -- Snh. 69a זקן דלקיף מקמיה before his hair around the genitals is grown. - Y. Ber. IX, 14b bot., a. e. (expl. ניקפי) וכ׳ לי אקיף (the Pharisee that says,) Lend me that I may do a certain pious worik; a. fr..