A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/שטוף - שטיותא
שטוף m. (שטף) rapidity; (adv.) rapidly. Targ. Jer. XII, 5.
שטופא, v. שטפא.
שטות f. (שטה) madness; folly. Num. R. s. 96 (ref. to Nuum. V, 12) ש׳ רוח בה שיכנס עד... בשין כתיב תשטה תשטה (not הש׳ בה. . .) it is written with Shin so that you may read thishteh, to intimate that a woman will not go astray, unless the spirit of insanity has entered into her; Sot. 3a ש׳ רוח עבירה עובר אדם אין no man sins unless &c. Midr. Till. to Ps. IX, v. מורא II. Y. Naz. IX, 57a . . . אאדיין בשטותו עומד Bar P. still insists upon his foolish opinion. Bekh. 5b (play on שטים, Num. XXV, 1) ש׳ בדברי שנתעסקו they were engaged in foolish things; Snh. 106a. Midr. Till. to Ps. XXXIV (ref. to Koh. III, 11) הש׳ אבל .. . מה כל וכ׳ whatever thou hast made, thou hast made well, but insanity, which thou hast created, of what avail is it before thee?; a. fr.
שטותא ch. 1) same. Targ. Koh. II, 3. Ib. 13. Targ. Y. Num. XXV, 1 (v. preced.); a. fr. -- Sabb. 121b; v. שטיא. Lev. R. s. I6, end שטותיה לאורח שטיא הדר the fool will go back to his foolish way (with ref. to Prov. XXVI, 11). Keth. 17a, v. שוטיתא; a. fr. -- 2) (v. שוט II) contempt. Targ. Prov. XII, 8. -- V. שטיותא. שטח (b. h.) to spread, stretch. Sabb. XXII, 4 מוטהן בחמה he may spread them (to dry) in the sun. Bets. 11a וכ׳ ברוח שוטחן he may spread them in the air on pins; a. fr. -- Part. pass. שטוה; f שטוחה &c. Ruth R. to IV, 12 (ref. to Gen. XXI, 25) וכ׳ כאן ש׳ יצחק שהיה Isaac was stretched out (prostrated in prayer) on one side, and Rebekah on the other; Gen. R. s. 63; Yalk. ib. 110; Yalk. Ruth 608. Tosef. Toh. IX, 10 וכ׳ שטוחין כלים garments which are spread (hung up) . . . higher than ten hand- breadths; a. e. Hithpa. השתשח, Nithpa. נשתטח to prostrate one's selה.. Hag. 22b וכ׳ קברי על ונ׳. . הלך R. J. went and prostrated himself on the grayes of &c. Midr. Till. to Ps. XVIII, 2 [read;] פניהם על ונופלין ומשתטחין... והן (ed. Bub. משתחוין) וכ׳ and they alighted from their horses and threw them- selves down and fell upon their faces &c.; Yalk. Sam. 133. Midr. Till. to Ps. II, 1 וכ׳ משתטח. . . שמגיע וכיון but when the wave reaches the shore of the sea, it prostrates itself before the sand; (Yalk. Is. 350 כורע); a. fr.
שטח, שטיח ch. same. Targ.Sum. XI.32 (o. ed.Berl. שטחו Pa.; ed..Vien. O. שחטו, corr.acc.). Targ.Is. XXXVIII, 21 Regia (ed. ישורטון; ed. Lag. וישיטרון, Var. וישרטון; h. text מרח). Targ. Jer. VIII, 2; a. e. -- Bets. 11b לי מה וכ׳ למשטחינהו what difference is there between spreading the hides (on the Holy Day) and salting them? Y. Sabb. VII, 10a bot., v. מסבסלה; a. e. - Ruth R. to , 17 אננן. . ובתר וכ׳ קליה (שטחון) שטהין after the festival we shall spread the report of it (the precious stone), and whatever price it may fetch &c. Af. אשטח same. Targ. Job XII, 23. Pa. שטח same, v, supra. Ithpa. אשתטח, tthpe. אשתטח to prostrate one's self. Targ. Y. IGen. XVVII, 17 Ar. (ed. נפל). Targ. Deuut. IX, 25. Targ. Jer. IV, 31; a. fr. - B. Mets. 85b אמערתיה אשתטחי I prostrated myself over his (Elijah's) burial cave. שטי, טטה, v. סה. טטי, שטטא, v. סי.
שטי, שטה (cmp. סטה) [to go astray,] to be dement- ed, foolish. V. שוטה. Nif. נשטה, Hithpa. השתטה, Nithpa. נשטהה 1) to become demented. Tosef. B.Kam. IV, 4 בעליו שנישטו ed. Zuck. (Var. שנשתטו) whose owner became insane; B. Kam. 39b. Yeb. XIV, 1 וכ׳ נשתטית if the wife becomes insane, he can- not divorce her; וכ׳ נ׳ if he becomes insane, he can never divorce her; a. fr. -- 2) to be mad; to rage, be impassioned. Num. R. s. 20e וכ׳ אחריה נשטה היה he was mad with passion for her, as we read (Hos. IV, 11) &c.; Tanh. Balak 18 וכ׳ מששטתה היו (read; משתטה היה; ed. Bub. 25 נששטה). Ib. וכ׳ נ׳ והוא and he in his rage for her slaughtered it to Baal Peor; Num. R. l. c. Tosef. Nidd. V, 17 אתם מתי עד וכ׳ נשטין how long will you rage? cry to him that created the sea. Tanh. Vayera 22 וכ׳ ה׳ הוא והזקן and that old man (Abraham) has run mad, and he is going to slay thee. Yalk. Sam. 13 1 ומשתטה . . . ומשתטה צועקת והיתה ממבחון and she screamed and raged within, and Davidi screamed and raged without; Midr. Till. to Ps. XXXIVf בחון ומשטה. . . ומשטות שתיהן צועקות והיו amnd both of them (mother and daughter) screamed and raged &c. Yalk. Ps. 846 [read] הוא כאילו בנים דואה שמשאדם מכאן משתטה from this we learn that, when a man lives to have children, he acts like a fool (in playing with them). Hif. השטה 1) same, v. supra. -- 2) (with ב) to fool, jest. Yeb. 106a; B. Kam. 116a בך אני משטה ליה אמר he may say, I was only jesting with thee. B. Bath. 175a אדם אאין מיתה בשעת משטה nobody jests in his dying hour (there- fore a dying man's admission of indebtedness does not require the usual formalities to be binding). שטי, טטא cn.aome. -Part שטיי o. v. -barg. ISam. XVII, 42 שטיה, v. שוט II ch.] Ithpa. אשתטי to become or be desmented, to rage; to be tngaged in ecstatic exereises. Targ. I Sam. XVVIII, 10 (h. text ויתנבא). Targ. I Kings XVIII, 29. Targ. Deut. XXVIII, 34. Targ. Jer. XXIII, 9. Targ. Ez. XX, 29. Targ. I Sam.I, 14 (h. text תשתכרין); a. e. - Meg. 12b וההוא בחמריה א׳ גברא and this man (thou, Ahasver) is demented from the small quantity of wine he drank. Gen. R. s. 50 (expl.וילאו, Gen. XIX, 11) אישתטון they became demented (with ref. to אויל, Jer. IV, 22). שטי, טטטוא o. (preced) nsane, madnman, fool. Targ. I Sam. XXI, 15. Ib. XVII, 43. Targ. Prov. XX, 3 שאטי כל Ms. (ed. Lag. דשאטי כל; oth. ed. דשטי). Targ. Ps. XIV, 1 (h. text נבל); a. fr. - Sabb. 121b וכ׳ מתני ש׳ אאבין foolish Abin teaches his son folly. Yeb. 31a; Keth. 20a ש׳ בר one subject to attacks of insanity. Lev. R. s. I, end, v. שטיתא. Midr. Till. to Ps. VII (ref. to Job XII, 16 ומשגה שוגג, a. reading משגה) ושטיותא ש׳ (ed. Bub. ושטיתא, corr. acc., or ושטותא) the madman and the madness;