A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/סלסלה - סלק
a maiden(v. פתל);a. e. - [3)to commit lewdness, v. סלל I. -- [Yalk. Kings 232 מסלסלת, v. צלצל]
סלסלה f. (preced.) [curling,] a cloth of very fine texture. Gitt. 59a.
סלסלה f. (b. h.; v. סל) a small basket. Tanb. K'dosh. 8 (contrad. to גדול סל).
סלסלין m. pl. ch. same, the grape cutter's small baskets for the gleanings. Targ. Jer. VI, 9.
סלע m. (b. h.; Arab. sala, to cleave) 1) rock, clod, boulder. Tosef. B. Bath. I, 1 בידים הבא בס׳ if there is (between the two pits) a clod which crumbles under one s hands; B. Bath. 17b; 19a. Orl. I, 3 עמו והס׳ שנעקר אילן if a tree has been uprooted with the clod on its roots; a. fr. -- P. סלעים, סלעין. B. Bath. II, 1הס׳ את . .. מרחיקין וכ׳ deposits of stones (or earth) must be kept off the neighbor's wall &c.; Y. Sabb. IV, 6d bot. מרתיחין שהס׳ לא וכ׳ not because they generate heat, but because they generate mould and ruin the wall. B. Bath. l. c. תנא לחול הדין והוא ס׳ הכא the Mishnah mentions stones and implies sand. Tanh. Huck. 20 שדים כמין ס׳ rocks protruding like breasts; a. fr. --2) pl. as ab. scales on the bodies of serpents. Tanh. M'tsor 2 וכ׳ הנחש על שהן ד׳ the scales on the serpent's back are its leprosy. --3) Sela, a weiight and a coin equal to one sacred or two common Shekels (v. Zuckerm. Talm. Miinz., pp. 9; 24). Kel. XII, 7 וכ׳ שנפסלה ס׳ a Sela which has been unfitted (as a coin) and which has been fitted up for use as a weight. Bekh. 50a וכ׳ קדש של ס׳ the sacred S. contains 48 dupondia. Ib. ס סתם בתורה האמור כסף כל every silver piece mentioned in the Pentateuch without any qualification means a S. Ib,b (ref. to B. Kam. VIII, 6) וכ׳ זוזי ארבע ס׳ תימא ולא think not that the Mishnah means a S. of four Zuz, but it means half a Zuz, for people call half a Zuz a Sela. (split, cmp. בקע); B. Kam. 36b צורי ס׳ a Tyrian S.; ס׳ מדינה a country S. (one eighth of a Tyrian S., half a Zuz; v. supra); a. v. fr. -In gen. coin. Sabb. VI, 6 הצינית שעל ס׳ a. coin placed on a sore oftthe foot. Ab. Zar. 54b שלי ס׳my (the Lord's) coin (divine image of man), v. פומבי. -- Pl. as ab. Y. Sabb. l. c. כסף של בס׳ תיפתר it means s'ldd im (coins) of silver; וכ׳ זהב בשל golden, copper s'lddim. Keth. V, 9 וכ׳ שתי ס׳ חמשה משקל warp of the weight of five S. in Judea which is equal to ten S. in Galilee &c. Y. Kidd. I, 59a bot., a. e. ס׳ . .. שקלים כל allShekels mentioned in the Pentateuch mean S., v. supra; a. fr. -- [Tosef. bkts. I, 2 (T'bul Yom III) שבלים של ס׳, v. מלע.]
סלעא, סי׳ ch. same, 1) Sela. Targ. Ex. XXX, 13 (h. text שקל); a. fr. - Y. Kidd. I, 58d bot. דינרין ד׳ ס׳ one Sela has four Denars; a. fr. -- Pl. סלעין, סל׳, סלעיא, סי׳. Targ. Gen. XX, 16. Targ. Ex. l. c.; a. fr. -- B. Bath. X, 2 (165b; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. notes 6; 7); a. fr. -- 2) pl. as ab. scales on the serpent. Gen. R. s. 20 וכ׳ דביה ס׳ הלין (not הדין) those scales on the serpent are leprosy (v. preced.); Ex. R. s. 3; Yalk. Gen. 30 (not רביה).
סלעם (Saf. of לעם; cmp. לעט, לעס) to swallow; to ruin (corresp. to h. בלע). Targ. Job X, 8; a. fr. -- Part. pass. מלעם; f. מסלעמא. Targ. Nah. III, 11. Targ. Is. IX, 15 מסלעמין (Hebraism). thpa. אסתלעם to be swallowed up, ruined. Ib. XXVIII, 7; a. fr.
סלעם m. (b. h.; preced.) name of a species of locusts. Hull. 65a, sq.; Yalk. Lev. 537 (defined רשון or ניפול). Yoma. 7b ס׳ קרני Ar., a. Mss. O. a. L. (ed. חגבים).
סלעמיתא f. (preced. wds.) destruction, ruin. Targ. Ps. LII, 6 (Ms. סולעמותא).
סלף (b. h.; cmp. סלסל) to twist, pervert, Pi. סיעף same. Tanh. Noah 19 הדרך תסלפו לא do not pervert the way (deviate from the right path).
סלף ch. same. Part. pass. סליף. Targ. Prov. X, 10 Ms. (ed. סליף adj.). - [Targ. Job XXXIV, 29 ויסלף ed. Lag., read ויסלק, v. סלק.] thpe. אסתליף to be distorted. Targ. II Esth. VI, 10.
סלפירים, סלפידין, סלפידס m. pm. (~~~~~~~. accus. a~, a form otherwise unknown; cmp., however, okmtco, fut. oukuvtoo &c.) trumpets, v. next w.
סלפינגס m. pl. (accus. pl. of ~~~~t) trumpets. Lam. R. introd. (R. Josh. 2) ס׳ בתרועה קול להרים Ar. Var. (סלפידס Ar.; ed. סרפינוס, סרפיגס, corr. acc.) to lift up the voice in shouting (Ez. XXI, 27), that means the trumpet signals; Koh. R. to XII, 7 בסרפיניסם (corr. acc.) Gen. R. s. 99 סולפירים (סלפירין, סילפירי, read ד for ר, v. preced.). Pesik. R. s. 5 סלפירין (corr. acc.). Pesik. Bahod., p. 152a וכ׳ סלפידים וכמה . . . קרנות כמה how many horns have they (the gentiles) . . . . how many trumpets; Midr. Till.. to Ps. LXXXI, 4 ידים ספק (ed. Bub. ספלירין; corr. acc.); Yalk. Lev. 645 סנפירים (corr. acc.); a. e. (variously cor- rupted).
*סלפיתא f. salpitha, name of a species of fsh. Y. Ab. Zar. II, end, 42a ס׳ הדא ליה אחוי he showed him the eggs of a salpitha; [Var. קלסיתא, קליפתא, v. Tosaf. to Bab. ib. 40a; Asheri to Ab. Zar. II, end סלופתא]. סלק 1) to go up, go away. -l2) to pile up. Tam. II, 1 סולקין Talm. ed., v. סנק.] Pi. סילק 1) tto remove; to cause cessation, suspend. Sabb. XX, 4לצדדין ומסלקין... גורפין you may rake . . and remove to the cormers. Nidd. IV, 7, a. e. לקתkמס suspends, v. חרדה. Ex. R. s. 3 אותו סקת thou hast discarded him (omitted to mention him in connection with the Lord); a. fr. -- Part. pass. מסולק; f מסולקת;pl. מסולקים, מסולקי; מסולקות. Nidd. 68b מס׳ דמיהher menstruation is suspended. Y. Keth. IX, beg. 32d if one uses the expression וכ׳ מס׳ ידיי my hands are removed, my feet are removed from this field, he has said nothingthas not thereby renounced his rights); a. e. -- 2) to lift up, raise, esp. to tuck up the trail of a. garment. Zeb.18bכשרי... שסילקן מרושלין trailingtpriestly) garments when tucked up by the belt, are fit for service; a. e. -- Part. pass. as ab. lifted up, too short. Tosef. Men. I, 8; Zeb. 18a, so., v. לoרס.