A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/קירקוס - קיתון
קירקוס, Yalk. Dan. 1064, v. מקרין I.
קירקור, קר׳m. (קרקר III) croaking (of frogs). Tanh. Bo 4 ׳כו השק היה ןרוקרק their croaking was harder to bear tthan their ruining; Pesik. Vayhi, p. 66b quot. in Ar..
קירקנות, קור׳ f. pl. (=קירקרנ׳, v. preced.) clappers, a sort of castanets, used at wedding processions. Pesik. R. s. 43 ׳כו ׳יק םינעוט (ed. Fr. ׳וק) carrying castanets and marching before her.
קירקני m. pl. (v. preced. wds.) croaking. Ned. 51a ןמיאד ׳קבו . . . אניתש I shall drink wine tto thy father's dancing and thy mother's croaking (singing); [Rashi נ handing the cup].
קירקוסיי, Yalk. Kings 222, v. קורקסא.
קיש I pr. n. m. (b. h.) Kish, the father of king Saul. Meg. 12b ׳כו שיקה שיק ןב, v. שקג; a. e.
קיש II m. (נקש) clapping, the sound kish-kish. B. Mets. 85b, v. שיכ.
קיש III, part. of קשש II.
קישבא, v. קשבא.
קישואים, קישואין, v. קשואים.
קישוט, קש׳ m. (קשט) dress, toilet, ornament. - Pl. םיטוששששיק, ןיטוששיק, ׳שק. Lam. R. to II, 13 (play on ךדיעא, ib.; cmp. ידע II) םכתא יתטשק ׳ק המכ with how many. ornaments did I adorn youl; Pesik. Nah., p. 124b. Keth. 71b ׳כו היטושק הירמ תינהנ is benefited by the perfume of her toilet for thirty days (can be thirty days without perfumery). Ib. (in Chald. diction) ׳כו היטושקל והנלתד (read; והנתלתד) when she attached her vow of abstinence from perfuming herself to marital intercourse &c.; a. e.
קיסוטא, קש׳ ch. same. Targ. Is. XLIX, 1s קישוט constr. (ed. Wil. טושק, corr. acc.). -- Pl. איטוששיק, ׳wק. Targ. Jer. II, 32 אהטוששיק (h. text הירשק).
קישוי, קש׳ m. (קשה) protracted travailing, laws of cleanness concerning discharges during protracted trammm- ailing. Nidd. IV, 5 (36b) היושק אוה המכ (Bab. ed. איה ׳ששיק) how long may her travailing last (in order to apply to her the laws concerning &c.)?; Yeb. 83a; Y. ib. IV, 6a; Y. Nidd. I, 49b top הייוזששיק; ib. ׳כו רתוי ׳ק ןיא the laws apply only during two weeks. Bab. ib. 66a םילפנל ׳ק ןיא the law of kishshuy does not appply to cases of abortion; a. e.
קישויא m. (קשי) objection, argument. - Pl. קישויי. Y. Pes. VII, 35b top ׳ק ןיליאכ היל תיל (not איושיק) does not agree with those arguments (does not consider them convincing).
קישור, קש׳ m. (קשר) binding, contraction. Sabb. 16b םיבע ׳ק תעשב when the clouds were gathering, opp. רוזיפ. Ib. XV, 1 ׳כו ןרושיק לע בייח אוהש םשכ as well as he is guilty (of violating the Sabbath laws), when he ties them (he knots) &c., opp. ריתה. Y. ib. IV, 7a top; a. e. -- Pl. םירושיק, ׳שק (b. b. םירשק) beads, decorations. Pirke d'R. El. (h. XXXII, endהירוששקב הלככ like a bride in her attire; Yalk. Gen. 114. Sabb. 66b (expl. םירשק, Mish. VI, 9), ירושק האופ (Ms. M. האיפ רושיק), v. האופ; Y. ib. VI, 8a ירשוקב האיפ (corr. acc.); a. ס.
קישורא, קש׳ ch. same. Y. Sabb. IV, 7a top קישורי ׳כו ברד the tying of which Rab speaks, referring to tying twigs for the purposes of a tent; אבא ׳רד הירושיק the tying of which R. Abba speaks, referring to tying twigs for the purpose of making an implement (seats); a. e. --- Pl. ירושיק. Bab. iib. 66b ק Ms. M. a. Rashi (ed. ירישק) a sort of stilts, tied to the legs; v. ןימטקנא.
קישושותf.pl. (קשש I) 1) rakings, chips. Tosef. Shebi. II, 14. Tosef. Erub. XI (VIII), 10 (Ar. ed. Koh. תוישושיק; oth. ed. תוישקשק), v. םישקשק. -2) splints put on a fracture, v. ןישישק.
קישות I f. (cmp. כשות) [tufted fruit,] cucumber (sing. a. pl.). Tosef. Dem. V, 10 קקו ׳ק לכמ לטינ he takes tithe from each bunch of cucumbers. Ter. III, 1תאצמנו ׳ק םרותה ׳כו if one separates a cucumber for T'rumah, and it is found to be bitter. Tosef. ib. IV, 5 ׳כו ׳קקב רמ ךל ןיא there is nothing bitter in the cucumber except the central part (the central cucumber in the bunch ());a. e. - Pl. (v. supra). Ib. V, 14. Sabb. 109a Ar. s. v. זרט; v. תושכ. -- V. םיאוששק.
קישות II f. (נקש) comparison, likeness. Gen. R. s. 35 (play on יתשק, Gen. IX, 13) ׳כו יתושיק my likeness, that which comes near to me (the halo of glory); Yalk. ib. 6 1 קשותי; v. קשא I.
ישןm. (נקש) one whose legs knock against each other, bandy-legged. Bekh. 45a; Tosef. ib. V, 9 ןשקיה (ed. Vien. ןשקעה, cmp. ).
קישקוש, קש׳m. (קשקש I) hoeing the ground(around olive trees). M. Kat. 3a ככו קו יודיעל ןינמ whence is it learned that hoeing of vines, and hoeing of olive trees, and clear- ing are forbidden in the Sabbatical year? Ib. ירש . .. ׳קו is hoeing in the Sabbatical year permitted?; Succ. 44b Ms. M. (ed. ישוקשק).
קישקושא, קש׳ I ch. same. - Pl. קישקושי, קש׳. M. Kat. 3a; Succ. 44b; Yalk. Ex. 354 ׳כו ווה ׳ק ירת there are two kinds of hoeing, one intended to make the tree stronger &c., v. אליפ III.
קישקושא, קש׳ II m. (קשש; cmp. Zeph. II, 1) gathering place (in war times); tower, fort. -- Pl. ישוקשיק, ׳שק. Sabb. 11a ׳כו ׳קב לבא but as to towers and turrets, we care not (they may be higher than the synagoguש).
קישר־, v. קשר.
קישרתא, v. קושרתא.
קישת, Tosef. Nidd. V, 8, v. קשה Pi.