A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/ציר - צלא
ציר IV m. (b. h.; צור) [one going around,] messenger, agent. Pirke d'R. El. ch. XXIII לשולחיו נאמן צ׳ ביד כשולח ike one sending through a messenger faithful to those who send him (Prov. XXV, 13); Yalk. Gen. 58. Ab. d'R. N. ch. XXXIV.
ציר, צירא, ציי׳ m. (צור) siege; straitness. Targ. O. Deut. XXVIII, 53 (ed. Berl. יארא); ib. 55; 57. Targ. Ezz. IV, 2 (ed. Lag. בצייר; oth. ed. מצייר, corr. acc.). Ib. 3 (ed. Wil. צירא). Targ. Deut. XX, 19; a. fr.
צירא I brine, v. ציר ch.
צירא II =h. ציר II, hinge, pivot; socket; pin. Y. Hag. II, 77a bot. וכ׳ דתרעא צ׳ the pin of the gate of Gehenna. was fastened tto her ear; Y. Snh. VI, 23a bot. (corr. acc.). -- Pl. צירין. Targ. IKings VI, 34 (h. text צלעים, קלעים) turning door-uwings. Targ. Ex. XXVI, 17 (Y. ed. Vien. ציד׳, corr. acc.; h. text ידות); ib. 19 (ed. Vien. ציד׳, corr. acc.); a. e. -Targ. Y. Gen. XX, 18 ולדא בית צירוה, ו׳ ב׳ צירה,read; ו׳ דב׳ צירי the hinges of the womb (v. ציר II). -- V. צירתא.
צירוכין, v. next w.
צירוף m. (צרף) 1) smelting, reduction through trials. Keth. 11 2b צ׳ אחר צ׳ one reduction after the other (ref. to Is. VI, 13). - 2) fusion, the state of being considered as one coherent mass or as one act. Pes. 19a דאורייתא צ׳ that things contained in one vessel are to be considered as one mass is a Biblical rule. Naz. 4a צ׳ ליה לית רש R. S. does not adopt the rule of fusion (that the various things forbidden tto the Vazarite, if partaken of together, commbine to make up the legal quantity). Y. Maasr. IV, 51b למה צ׳ לי why is it necessary to apply the rule of fusion?; וכ׳ צ׳ ואם and if you apply the rule of fusion &c.; a. fr. -- Pl. צירופין. Y. Naz. II, 54a bot. [read;] לצ׳ נכללו ולמה (ed. Krot. לצירוכין, corr. acc.) and why have they again been stated by implication? To intimate that the rule of fusion applies to them (if eaten together). Ib.d bot. נזיר בצירופי as to the rule of fusion applied to the Nazarite; a. e.
בירחא, v. צרחא.
ציריא, צר׳ m. (צרי I; Syr. צריא, P. Sm. 3441) slit, incision. Pes. 40a וכ׳ צ׳ בהו דאית כיון as they (the wheat grains) have a slit, the water penetrates them. Ib. top דחבירתה בציריה . . . דילמא (Ms. M. בצייריא, read; בצירייא) maybe one grain moves in boiling and settles in the slit of the other. Nidd. 23a בצ׳ הא באוכמא הא in one case the shape of the black of the eye is meant, in the other, the slit (in which the eye is seated), v. ציהרא. -- Pl. ציריי. Ab. Zar. 65b וכ׳ צירייהו אגב (Ms. M. צירי בהו דאית, read ציריי) on account of their slits, they are considered as if they were burst open.
צירן m. (denom. of ציר I) one whose eyes discharge a briny lieuid, blear-eyed; [Rashi; one whose eyes have a cylindrical shape like a pivot, fr. ציר II]. Bekh. VII, 3, expl. ib. 44a וירניות הרוטות עיניו whose eyes are bleared and granulated; [Rashi; round or pivot-shaped]; Tosef. ib. V, 3 מצודניות עיניו ed. Zuck. (corr. acc., oor read with oth. ed. מרודניות).
צירניא, v. צידון.
צירנייתו f. pl. (v. preced. art.) discharging pus, granulated. Targ. Y. I Gen. XXIX, 17.
צירנית f., pl. צירניות, v. צירן.
צירעא, צירעה, צירעתא צירצור, v. sub צר׳.
צירתא f. = צירא II, hinge, pivot. Targ. Prov. XXVI, 14.
צירתא f. (cmp. ציר) anguish. Targ. Y. Deut. XXVIII, 22 דליבא 'צ׳ anguish of heart (incubush).
צית, v. צות.
צית m. (preced.) joint; prep. with, near; לצ׳ towards. Targ. Gen. XI, 4; XXVIII, 12. Targ. Y. Ex. XX, 18 (O. לציד, לצד). Targ. Job II, 12. Targ. II Esth. IV, 2 ed. Lag. (oth. ed. לגבר); a. e.
ציתא, v. צייתא.
יתור, צייתור pr. n. pl. Tsaythor. Lev. R. s. 24 אבא צ׳ איש יוסי; Tanh. K'dosh. 9 צ׳ איש יוסי; Yalk. Ps. 680 ציתוד איש דוסי ר׳,
ציתנית, v. צייתנית.
ציתרי, v. צתרי.
בכוונא, v. צחוונא.
צל, v. צלל.
צל m. (b. h.; צלל, v. טללא) shade, shadow; protection. Succ. 2a סוכה בצל יושב אדם . . . עד up to a height (of the walls) of twenty cubits one sits in the shade of the ceiling of the booth; דפנות בצל . . . למעלה above twenty cubits, one sits no longer shaded by the ceiling, but shaded by the walls. Ib,b סוכה צל איכא דרויחא כיון when the Succah is very large, there is the shade of the ceiling (even when the walls are higher than twenty cubits). Koh. R. to I, 2 (ref. to ib. VI, 12) וכ׳ כותל של כצלו אם צל כאיזה like what shadow? if like the shadow of a wall, there is some reality in it; ib. וכ׳ דבורים של כצלן like the shadow cast by flying bees &c.; Gen. R. s. 96 וכ׳ כצילו. Pes. 114a בצל וששב בצל אכול וכ׳ eat onions and sit in the shade (of thy house in content- ment) rather than &c. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 43b bot. צל אסור ציל מותר צילה the shade of a worshipped tree is forbidden (to be enjoyed), the shade of the shade is permitted;שאילן כל וכ׳ צילה זהו . . . as far as the tree would reach if felled, so far is its shadow; what is beyond, is the shadow of the shadow; Bab. ib. 48b קומתה צל the extent of the shadow corresponding to the height of ttie tree. Midr. Sam. ch. XIV; Yalk. Sam. 109, v. צח. Ex. R. s. 34 (ref. to Ps. XCI, 1) בצלאל שעשה בצל in the shade which Bezalel has made (the Taberniacle). Ber. 55a (flay on בצלאל) שמא וכ׳ היית אל בצל hast thou been in the shade of God that thou knowest it?; a. v. fr.