laborers &c. Toh. VI, 7, a. e. וכ׳ החמה בימות הכ׳ the path
through the fields in summer-time (when used by field
laborers) is considered as private ground with regard
to Sabbath laws, as public with regard to levitical purity.
B. Bath. 61b when one sells . . . a field גדולה בב׳ within a.
large group of fiehls (all belonging to the seller). Ib. (in
a place) where they call ב׳ ולב׳ ש׳ לשדה a field sadeh and
an estate bikah; a. fr. -- Trnsf. an unguarded fleld, moral
danger, Erub. 6a; 100b; Hull. 110a וכ׳ מצא ב׳ רב Rab found
an unguarded field and fenced it in, i e. found people
transgressing the law in ignorance and institutted prevent-
ive regulations. -- Pl. בקעות. Gen. R. s. 98. -- 2) (constr.)
בקעת pr. n. pl. Valley of-, as יזרעאל ב׳, ידים ב׳ &c., for all
of which see the respective determinants.
בקעי, Y. Ned. IV, beg. 38c, v. ביקוע.
בקעת f. (בקע) 1) chip, piece of wood; log to be chopped. B. Kamm. 32b וכ׳ ב׳ נתזה a chip slipped out (of the carp- enter's hand) and struck his face; Y. ib. III, end, 3d. Y. Macc. II, 31c bot. Y. Bets. IV, 62c bot. את מכבין אין הב׳ you must not extinguish the log; v. כסס. Sabb. 29a top; a. fr. -- Pl. (cmp. pl. of כנסת) בקעיות. Hull. 37b אפי׳ ב׳ אוכלת even if strong enough to bite wood. Koh. R. to III, 17 (a gloss expl. גזירין). Gen. R. s. 27, v. בקיעה. --- 2) dial. for פקעת q. v.
בקעתא, בקע׳ ch. same. Targ. Y. Num. XIX, 6.
בקעתא, בקע׳, בקעא f ch.=h. בקעה. Targ. Gen. XI, 2; a. fr. - Pl. בקעתא. -- Y. Shebi. III, 34c top, v. פקועה. - Constr. בקעת, pr. n. Valley of. . . . Gen. R. s. 10; a. fr.
בקר (b. h.; בק, v. בקע) to enter into, to clear, split; whence 1) (=בער) to eat up. Denom. בקר (=בעיר). --- 2) (=בער) to break forth, shine. Denom. בקר. Pi. ביקר, בקר (b. h.) 1) to enter into, eramine, search, distinguish (cmp. בין). Keth. 106a מומין מבקרי those entrusted with the examination of sacrificial animals. Y. Bets. II, 61c top ממומן וביקרן and had them examined (and declared free) from bodily defects. Hag. 9b אין וכ׳ בקרו אומרים we do not say, Examine ye a camel, a. swine &c. (i. e. only the deeds of distinguished persons are scrutinized); a. fr. -- Part. pass. מבור examined and found fit. Y. Ber. IV, 7b top מבוקרים טליים lambs which passed examination. - 2) to inguire after one's health, to visit the sick. Ned. IV, 4 (38b). לבקרו ונכנס and comes to see him. Snh. 68a; a. v. fr. [Ruth. R. to II, 15, v. infra.] Hithpa. התבקר, Nithpa. נתבקר 1) to be examined. Gen. R. s. 81 נתבקרה פנקסו his account is examined (his sins visited); Tanh. Vayishlah 8 מתבקרת. Gen. R. s. 84, read with Yalk. Gen. 141 פנקסי נתב׳ my account &c. 2) to be visited, atttended to. Num. R. s. I8 as all sick persons מתברין are tended (by physicians). Hif. הבקיר (Y. Dial. for הפקיר, v. פקר; v. next w.) to give free, to resign ownership, to declare a property ownerless. Y. Ned. IV, 38d; Y. Peah V, beg. 19b [read] כיון מרשותו יצא דבר מבקיר שאדם as soon as one declares a. thing to be free, it has gone out of his control; Y. Dem. III, 23b bot. הבקר הבקירו . . . ויצא . . . מ׳ שאדם כיון as soon as one gives a thing free and it has left his posses- sion, his act is valid; a. fr. [Rtuth. R. to II, 15 מבקר, מבדר, prob. מבקיר; v. בדר.] Hof. הובקר to be declared free, to be free. Y. Peah VI, 19c top. -- Part. מובקר Ib. 19b bot. וכ׳ מובקרת שדי (Tosef. Maasr. III, 11. מופ׳ . . הרי) my field shall be free for one day &c.; a. e.
בקר ch. same. - Pa. בקר 1) to search, examine. Targ. O. Lev. XIII, 36; a. fr. -- 2) to clear, glean. Targ. Y. I Deut. XXIV, 20 (II תתב׳, read תבקרון, h. text תפאר). -- 3) to let the herd graze (cmp. בער), to drive unmuzrled animals. Targ. Y. Gen. XIII, 7. - 4) to visit the sick. Targ. Y. Ex. XVIII, 20; a. e. - Y. Sabb. VI, 8c bot.; a. fr. -- 5) (rpreced.Hif.) to abandon, leave unclaimed, declare free. Targ. Y. Ex. XXIII, 11 Ar. (some ed. ותפקד, read. ותפקר). Y. Shebi. IX, 39a top קומיהון ואבקרה and Iwill declare it free goods in their presene. Ib. ליה ומבקרין and declare ye it free property.
בקר, בוקר m. (b. h.; v. בקר) morning, early day; metaph. light, salvation. Y. Taan. I, 64a top לצדיקים ב׳ וכ׳ a morning for the righteous, a night for the wicked. Ruth. R. to III, 13 וכ׳ בעולם בב׳ 'in the morning--tthat means in the world which is all-good. Esth. R., introd. (ref. to Deut. XXVIII, 67) וכ׳ בבל של בבקרה in the mon- ing (ascendancy) of Babel thou shalt say, Oh that her evening (downfall) would come Gen. R. s. 21 (ref. to Dan. VIII, 14) וכ׳ בקרן לכשיעשה when the morning of the (persecuting) nations shall become evening, and the evening of Israel morning; Tanh. ed. Bub. B'resh. 23. Mekh. Bo, s. 6 in order to define it; ב׳ של לבקרו at the very break of morning; Y. Ber. I, 2c top. -- Pl. בקרים. Yoma 33b ב׳ לשני חלקהו divide the acts prescribed into two mornings, i. e. let another act be inserted between. Ber. 27a ב׳ לשני חלקהו take only one half of the morn- ing hours. Y. Pes. V, 31d top הבקרים בין תמן מימר לך אית then it ought to have read there ben hab.b'karaim (as you uead הערבים בין, Du.).
בקר m. (b. h.; v. בקר) a beef; (collect.) oxen, cattle. Sifra Vayikra ch. II, Par. 2 וכ׳ ב׳ אלא בבהמה לך אין under b'he,nזah for offerings (Lev. I, 2) are meant only beeves and sheep; a. fr. ב׳ בן young cattle, calf. Ib.; a. tr. -דועי־ ב׳ herders (suspected of feeding upon other people's flelds). Snh. III, 2 ב׳ ר׳ שלשה עלי נאמנין (if one says) I have faith in (the arbitration of) three herders.
בקר m. (preced.) neat-herd, cow-herd; cattle-driver. Y. Bets. V, 63b, v. רגל.
בקרא I ch. same. B. Mets. 42b. - Pl. בקרי. Sot. 48a דב׳ זמרא the song of the drivers (at ploughing).
*בקרא II m., pl. בקרין (v. בקר, cmp. b. h. בער a. בור I) [empty,] light-minded, thoughtless. Targ. Jud. IX, 4 Ar. a. Kimhi (ed. בסירין).
בקרא c. (בקר) herd. Targ. Y. Deut. VII, 13 בקרת תוריך (h. text אלפיך שגר). B. Mets. 84a דתורי ב׳ a hemd 24 b
