A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/עצם - עצרתא
and pretend not to see him (the old man); Yalk. Lev. 617; Sifra l. c. יעצום. Sabb. XXIII, 5 מעצים, v. עמן. Pi. עישם to close (a dead body's eyes), v. ןaימ. liaga. םggהע, AVietpe. נתעצס 1) to be closeaad, r. 1עט. -- 2) to be headstrong towards one another. Snh. 31b ששנים וכ׳ בדין שנתעשמו if both parties to a law-suit are stubborn, one saying, let us go to law here, and the other saying, let us go to the circuit court. -- 3) v. עיצום 3) to fortify each other, i. e. to enter an agreement with the condition of forfeiture. Tosef. B. Mets. I, 16 בזה זה שנתעצמו שנים וכ׳ ואמר if two made an agreement wherein one said, if I do not come &c.
עצם m. (b. h.; preced.)[strength,] 1) bone. Tosef. Sabb. VII (VIII), 21 בגרונו ע׳ עמד if a bone sticks in one's throat; Sabb. 67a. Pes. VII, 11 וכ׳ הע׳ את השובר he who breaks a bone of the Passover sacrifice. Ib. 12 בו שאין הע׳ שבירת משום because the prohibition to break a bone does not apply to i; a. v. fr. -- Pl. עצמות. Ib. 10. Ib. VIII, 8 ע׳ לו והמלקט he who has the bones (of a parent) collected, v. לקט; a. v. fr. - 2) substance, essence, self (v. עיצום). Ab. I, 14 וכ׳ לעצמי וכשאני and if Iam (I care) for myself only, what am I? Ib. II, 13 עצמך בפני רשע תהי אל be not a wicked man in thine own sight (despair not of thyself). Ber. 43a; Tosef. ib. IV, 8 לעצמו מברך ואחד אחד כל each says the blessing for himself. Zeb. VIII, 10 בעצמו כשהוא when it (the addition to, or the diminution from the prescribed action) stands by itself (is clearly visible); R. Hash. 28b; Erub. 100a. Sifre Deut. 19 וכ׳ אני מעצמי לא I did not say that of my own accord (as my idea), but at the com- mand of God. Num. R. s. 20; Tanh. Bal. 13 לילך בקש וכ׳ לעצמו he wanted to go to himself (go homme); a. v. fr. -- Pl. constr. עצמי. Sifre Deut. 16 וכ׳ עצמיכם . . לשעבר in the past you were your own mmasters, now you are servants and subjects of the community; a. fr. -- 3) substance, wealth, esp. live stock. Yalk. Gen. 1 1 ttref.to ועבדה, Gen. XXVI, 14) ועבדת וכ׳ לעצמו כעבד נעשה אדם אין אם כתיב it may be read 'and he shall serve it, unless a man become like a slave to his stock, he does not own it; Gen. R. s. 64 לעבדו עבד כמו (read לעצמו; cmp. Snh. 58b). - P. as ab. Gen. R. l. c. (ref. to ממנו עצמת, Gen. XXVI, 16) היה ממנו שעצמת ע׳ אותן כל לד all tthese possessions (herds and focks) which thou. hast obtained, are tthey not from us; Yalk. l. c. עצומות.
*עצמוני m. (עצם) [bony.] name of a thorny plant, v. עצכונית.
עצר (b. h.; cmp. אצר) [to press,] to close up; to detain; to ward of; to gather, store aaway. Succ. 38a רוחות עוצרת וכ׳ wards off evil winds and dews (v. infra). Num. R. s. 19 ועצרו . . יכול היאך how could the angel of death strike a man that had stood up against the angel of death and warded him off? (ref. to Num. XVII, 13). Sifre Num. 151; Yalk. ib. 782 (ref. to עצרת, Num. XXIX, 35) הכתוב עצרו מלצאת the Scripture keeps him (the pilgrim) from leaving (Jerusalem, on the eighth day). Pesik. R. (ed. Fr.) addit. s. 4; Pesik. Bayom, p. 195b וכ׳ עוצר הקבה the Lord ocks his Presence up with them, v. infra. Ab. Zar. 71a חחתי עול לעוצר, v. עלל; a. fr. - Part. pass. עצור; f עצורה; l. עצורים, עצורין; עצורות. Sifre l. c. וכ׳ ע׳ זה אף מלצאת ע׳ זה מה as on this (the eighth day) one is prohibited to leave, so is one on this (the first day). Sifre Deut. 135 (ref. to עצרת, Deut. XVI, 8) וכ׳ כל ע׳ אדם יהא יכול from this you might infer that one must be confined the whole day in ths schoolhouse (for religious exercises). Ib. אף ע׳ שביעי מה ע׳ ששי as the seventh day is under restrictions (as to week-day labor), so is the sixth day (i. e. the days inter- vening between the first and the seventh day); מה אי וכ׳ מלאכה מכל ע׳ שביעי you might infer from this that as the seventh day is under restriction as regards all sorts of labor (even work of necessity), so is the ixth; Hag. 18a וכ׳ עע ימים .. מלאכה בכל ע׳ השביעי the seventh day is under a general restriction, but the six days are not; Yalk. Deut. 904; ib. 907. Hull. 67a ככלים ע׳ שהן . . בורות wells, pits and caves, the waters of which are restrained as in vessels; Yalk. Lev. 537 בכלים . . . עצירים (corr. acc.); a. fr. Nifנעצרto be detained; to be gathered together. Pesik. R. l. c. וכ׳ נעצרין שישראל זמן כל as long as Israel holds festive gatherings n synagogues and schoolhouses, the Lord locks up &c. (v. supra); Pesik. l. c.a מעצרין (Pi.). Yalk. Num. 782 (ref. to עצרת, v. supra) אחד יום עיד נעצרו למה why are they detained one more day? Taan. 7b נעצרין הגשמים the rains are wiihheld. Ib. 8a וכ׳ מלהוריד נעצרין השמים the heavens are locked np so as not to let down rain &c.; a. fr. Pi. עצי 1) to hold festive gatherings. Pesik. l. c., v. supra. - 2) to detain, keep of. Succ. 37b וכ׳ רוחות לעצר כדי in order to keep offf evil winds &c. (v. supra).
עצר ch. 1) to press, squeeze. Targ. Jud. VI, 38. Targ. Gen. Xb, 11 (O. ed. Vien. עצרית, Pa.); a. fr. -- Y. Sabb. XVII, 16b top; Y. Bets. I, 60b bot., v. זיירא. - 2) to beep back, save. Y. Taan. III, 66d top וכ׳ עצור, v. גולתא.
עצרm. =עצור. Targ. Am IX, 13 ענבין ע׳ (not עצר, עצר).
עצרא m. (preced. wds.) wine-press, vat. - Pl. עצרי. B. Mets. 86b ע׳ ביני . . זגתא a black hen . . . that moves about among the vats. B. Kam. 27b דע קרנא (not דעצרא) a cornerr near the wine-presses..
עצרא m. (preced. wds.) juice. Gitt. 69b Ar., v. איצרא.
עצרי pr. n. m. dtsri. B. Bath. 174b (Ms. M. עצורי); Arakh. 23a ע׳ בר משה.
עצרת f. (b. h.; עצר) detention, gathering, esp. a festive gathering for the conclusion of a festive season, con- cluding feast; חג של ע׳ the concluding feast of the Succoth festival (Num. XXIX, 35); פסח של ע׳ the concluding feast of the Passover festival i e. the teast of Vreeks, Pentecost. Pesik. Bayom, p. 193a שע׳ כשם . . . חג של ע׳ היתה ראויה וכ׳ פסה של by right the concluding feast of the Succoth Pestival was to have been fifty days after (the first day of Succoth) as the concluding feast of Passover is &c.; Cant. R. to VII, 2; a. e -lIn gen. ע׳ f, (sub. יום) m. Feast of Vrreeks, Pentecost. Pesik. l. c., p. 190b ע׳ בסיון in the month of Sivan is the Feast of Weeks. HHag. II, 4 שחל ע׳ וכ׳ להיות if the Feast of Weeks occurs on a Priday. Ib. השבת אחר ע׳ . . לקיים שלא to oppose those who say that the Feast of Weeks must be observed on the day after tthe Sabbath (after seven commplete weeks from 189