Rashi; his fist). B. Kam. 5a לגזיזיה ר״ע תבריה R. Akiba.
has broken the force of his club (Rashi; fist), i. e. modi-
fied his opinion; ib. 42b. -- 2) piece. דברדא ג׳ a piece of
ice. Targ. I Chr. XI, 22 וכ׳ דב׳ ג׳ תבר he cut a hole in
the ice and bathed; Ber. 18b גזיזי. -- Pl. גזיזי. Ib. 59a
דברדא גזיזייה Ar. (ed. דברזא גזיזי) hail-stones (Ms. M.
דנורא בזיזיה or בזאיה, Ms. F. גזירי, v. Rabb. D. S. a. .
note).
גזיזה f. (גזז) 1) shearing wool. Yalk. Num. 750 (Korah, beg.) הג׳ זמן (Midr. Till. to Ps. I גיזה זמן) the season of shearing. Hull. 135a וכ׳ ג׳ מחוסר wants shearing, redemp- tion &c. Gen. R. s. 74; s. 85; Midr. Sam. ch. XXIII מקום כל וכ׳ ג׳ שנ׳ wherever shearing is mentioned in biblical ac- counts, it marks (an important epoch). -- 2) (=חתיכה, v. preced.) piece, shred. -- Pl. נזיזות. Y. Orl. III, 63a top (in Chald. diction) what profit is it to him גזיזית גזים (read זות . . .) to cut it into shreds?
גזייתא f. pl. (גזי) cuts (of the road), paths, narrow passages. Pes. 19b (Ms. M. גויי׳, clerical error). Ib. 113a top.
גזיל־, v. גזל.
גזילא, גזילא m. ch. =h.גזיל. Targ. Lev. V, 21 (Y. גזולא); a. e. - Pl. גזילייא. Y. BB. Kam. X, beg. 7b תניה אזל לג׳ the Tannai (Tosef. B. Mets. V, 20) goes over (from usurers gains) to robbed objects. -- Pl. f. גזילתא, גזל׳. Targ. Koh. V, 7.
גזילה, גזלה f. (b. h. גזל, גזלה; גזל) robbery, robbed object, illegitimate gain. B. Kam. 98b הג׳ כשעת משלם he must make retribution according to the value of the object at the time it was robbed. Y. ib. X, 7b bot. ג׳ מפורסמת a well-known robbery or robbed object. Treat. S'mah. ch. IX וכ׳ המת גזילת מרובה severer is the crime of robbery(orwrong) committed against a dead person &c. Pl. נזילות, גזלות. Snh. I, 1וחבלות ג׳ aw-suits of larceny and mayhem. Gitt. 55b that it may not be said אוכל מזבח ג׳ the altar receives illegitimately acquired goods; Y. ib. v, 47b top. - Keth. 105a; ib. XIII, 1 ג׳ דייני Y. ed. (Bab. גזירות) judges in suits of robbery; Bab. ib. 105a (har- monizing the two versions) ג׳ על גוירות גוזרי decreeing fines in cases of robbery. [Targ. Cant. VI, 6 גזלה a. גזילות h. forms]
גזים, v. גזם.
גזיר, pl. גזירין, v. גזר.
גזירא f. ch.=h. גזרה, decree, law. Targ. Gen. XLVII, 26 (ed. Berl. גזירה, h. text חק). Pl. גזירין. Targ. Esth. I, 19 archive of decrees. - נזירן. Targ. Ezek. XX, 25. V. גזירתא.
גזירה, v. preced. a. גזרה.
גזירה, Lam. R. to IV, 7, v. גיזרה -Y. Keth. V, 30a לג׳ חכים, v. גזורא.
גזיריפטי, גזירפטי m. pl. (αζαραπατεις, Pers. hazar paiti; v. Perl. Et. St. p. 118, a. authorities quot. ib.) name of a class of oppressive Persian officers (chiliarchi). Taan. 20a. Snh. 98a; Sabb. 139a. [Ar. דפטי גאזי, דפ׳ גזי; Var. פ׳ גזיר, דפ׳ גזיר, דיפטי גרז, גיזרפטי, גוזרפ׳ &c., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. c.]
גזירתא, גזרתא f ch. (גזר) 1) circumcision, foreskin, v. נזורתא. Targ. Y. II Ex. IV, 25 sq. ׳(some ed. גזיר׳). -- 2) (=h. גזרה) decree, edict, ordinance. Targ. Ex. V, 14. גזירתכון your decreed task. Targ. IKings X, 25 וכ׳ גזירת the decreed (tax) of every year. Targ. O. Ex. I, 8; a. fr. -- Gitt. 55b קמייתא ג׳ the first (Roman) decree (after the capture of Jerusalem). Ab. Zar. 35a וכ׳ ג׳ גזרי כי when they published a (religious) enactment in Palestine. -- Pl. גזירתא. Targ. Job XIV, 5.
גזית f. (b. h.; גזז) hewn stone; wall of squared stones. B. Bath. I, 1, contrad. to נויל. B. Mets. 117b; a. fr. - הג׳ לשכת the cell of Glagith, name of a Temple comapart- ment, the seat of the Great Sanedrin. Midd. V, 4; a. fr. -- Trnsf. ג׳ אבן (sguared stone), a plain interpreter of Hicble texts (Midrash). Ab. d'R. N. ch. XXVIII; 2d vers. ch. XfLVI.
גזל (b. h.) to tear away, rob (with accus. of person or of object); to take llegitimately. B. Kam. X, 5 הגוזל מ־ שדה he who robs a field from his neighbor (takes forcible possession). Ib. 6 וכ׳ את הגוזל he who robs his neighbor (takes illegitimately what belongs to his neigh- bor). Ib. 7 גזלתיך I have wronged thee (and owe thee retribution). Ber. 35b להקב״ה גוזל כאילו as though he robbed the Lord. Taan. 16a בבירה ובנאו מריש ג׳ if one robbed a beam and placed it in a large building; a. v. fr. - Part. גוזל robber, pl. גוזלין. Y. B. Bath. III, 14a bot. וכ׳ והג׳ האומנין mechanics (who ttake working mate- rial to their homes) and robbers cannot claim the right of pcssession, v. חזקה. -- Part. pass. גזול robbed, illegiti- mately acquired. Succ. III, I; a. fr. jliif. נגזל to be robbeed (of object taken, or of person de- prived). B. Kam. 95a, a. e. נגזלת אינה קרקע landed property cannot be robbed, i. e. can never become legitimate property by the law of limitation, v. יאוש. -- Part. נגזל the person robbed of his property, claimant. Shebu. VII, 1; a. fr.
גזל I, גזיל ch. same. Targ. Lev. V, 23; a. e.--B. Kam. 103a גזלוה מיגזל they acquired it illegitimately. Ib. 96a; a. fr. - [גז to spin, Targ. Y. Ex. XXXV, 26, quoted in Ar. s. v. כש 3, read עזל.]
גזל, גזל m. (b. h. גזל; גזל) robbery, wrong, oppression. Sabb. 32b וכ׳ ג׳ בעוון as a punishment for the crime of oppression, the locust rises &c. (ref. tto Am.IV, 1 a. 9). Gen. R. s. 31, beg. ובג׳ בזימה שטופים steeped in lust and violence. Pes. 113b Canaan bequeathed to his sons .c. . . הג׳ את אהבו love ye violence. B. Kam. 80b ג׳ משום בו אין the law of robbery does not apply to it (it is not private property). Erub. 100b we should have learned מנמלה ג׳ the regard of property from the ant. B. Kam. 109a גזילו שיוציא עד וכ׳ until he dispossesses himself of his robbery. Ib. שיוציא גזילה (corr. acc.). Ib.b וכ׳ יוצא גזילו his robbery must go