men, but behaved contemptibly ike chlldren; a. fr. --
Fesm. נערה lass, maid, esp. (Iaw) a girrl between twelve
and twelve and a half years of age, v. בגרות. Esth. R. to
V, 1; a, fr. - Keth. III, 8, contrad. to בוגרת a. קטנה. Ib.
IV, 1; a. fr. -- Pl. נערות, constr. נערות. Ib. III, 1(29a). Esth.
R. l. c. נערותיה שתי her ttwo maids; a. fr.
נערות f. (preced.) youth; vitality; puerility. Ex. R. s. 1, v. נער II Nif. - Kidd. IV, 14 בנערותו . . משמרתו the Law guards him from all evil while he is young. Deut. R. s. 8, end. Gen. R. s. 84 (ref. to Gen. XXXVII, 2) שהיה ׳ מעשה עושה he acted puerilely (was vain); a. fr. - Esp. maidenhood, the age or the legal status of a נערה. Y. Yeb. I, 3a top, v. בגרות; Kidd. 4a bot. ׳ סימני the symptoms of maidenhood (puberty); a. fr.
נערותא f. (v. נער I) roaring, camel's cry. Yeb. 120b לנערותיה אפסקיה ולא Rashi (ed. אפסיקתיה) and this did not make the camel cease from crying (unil life was entirely extinct).
נערן (b. h.) Naaran, near Jericho. Lev. R. s. 23 (ref. to Lam. I, 17) לכ׳ יריחו . כגון as hostile as Jericho to N.; Cant, R. to II, 2; Lam. R. to l. c. נועדן (corr. acc. or גוערן). -- Hull. 5a (ref. to שטנה נערה, II Kings V, 2) קטנה ׳ דמן (ed. נעורן) a little gil from N.; Sot. 46b נעורן.
נערת, v. נעורת.
נערת, v. נעורתא.
נעתא, v. גאתא.
נפא, v. נפי.
נפא, pl. פן, v. גפיא.
פה I, Pi. יפה, v. נפי.
נפה II (b. h.; נוף) fan; winnow; sieve. Men. VI, 7; X, 4, v. נפי. Y. Keth. VII, 31b bot., v. נדר. Hull. 45a ניקבה כנ׳ if the windpipe has perforations like a sieve. Sot. 48b; Y. ib. IX, 24b bot., v. נופת. Tanh. Ekeb 1; Yalk. Ps. 676, v. נופת; a. fr. -Ab. V, 15 נ׳ a scholar who retains the best teachings. - Pl. נפות. Men. 76b.
נפוותא, v. פפא, a. גפיא.
נפול, מפול, v. sub ניפ׳.
נפולא, v. פילא II.
נפולין, v. ניפולין.
נפוס, (נפוץ) m. (נפס, פץ) a kind of radish, re- sembling the carrot as to foliage, and the radish as to taste. Kil. I, 3; 5; Y. ed. a. Ms. M. ס . . . (Mish. a. Bab. ed. ן~ ...). bkts. I 2. [Loat. napus is a kind of turnip.]
נפח (b. h.; cmp. פוח) 1) to blow, breathe. Y. Sabb. VII, 1oa זכוכית כלי הנוה he who shapes glass vessels by blowing (on the Sabbath); Bab. ib. 75b וכ׳ בכלי המנפה. Makhsh. I, 6 וכ׳ בעדשים הנופח he who breathes at lentils to ascertain their quality. Toseff. Sabb, XV (XVI), 2 נופח וכ׳ בהוטמו you blow into its nostrils and put the teat into its mouth; Sabb. 128b; Y. ib. XVIII, end, 16c מביא וכ׳ ונופח יין you take wine and squirt it &c. B. Mets. 60b בקרביים נופתין אין it is not permitted to blow up entrails (for sale, to give them a delusive appearance); a. fr. -- 2) to be blown uup, to swell. Tanh. K'dosh. 8 פניו נפחו his face was swollen. Ib. נפוחות עיניו his eyes swollen. Nif. ניפח same. Sabb. 75b, v. supra. Maasr. IV, 5 וכ׳ ני׳ ואם . . מנפיח Y. ed. (Bab. ed. נפח .. מנפח; Ms. M. מנפיח; Mish. ed. נפה . . מנפה, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 7) he may blow out (the chaff of the wheat-ears) from hand to hand and eat, but if he blows and puts the grain in his lap, he is bound (to pay tithes); Bets. 13b. Ib. 14a. Ber. 19b; Nidd. 57a, a. eu, v. פפרס; a. fr. -- [Y. Peah VIII,. 21b top המנפח, read המכפח, v. קפח.] Pa. נופח to be blomwn, fanned. Treat. S'mah. ch. VIII וכי נופחה שלא אש ולא שנופחה אש . . מוטב it is better that a fire consume me which has been blown (by man), than a fire that has not been fanned (Gehenna; Job XX, 26). Nif. ניח to be blown up, to swell. Num. R. s. נפח וכ׳ כרסי my belly may swell and burst.
נפח ch. same, 1) to blow. Targ. Gen. II, 7; a. fr. - Y. Bets.II, end, 62b וכ׳ מנפוח (ל) to blow meat up. Gitt. 69a bot. וכ׳ חבריה ליה לינפח let his neighbor blow white cress- seeds (into his throat) through a straw. Hull. 46b ונפהינא לה and we blow tthe uangs up; a. fr. - Part. pass.נפיח; f. נפיחא;pl. גפיחן; נפיחן blown,iignited; blown up, swollen. Targ. Job XX, 26. Targ. O. Num. V, 21; a. fr. - Hull. 47b דנפיחא אד (not דנפיחה) some explain לאופתא דמיא (v. אופתא) as meaning llungswhich look asif distended (white). Sabb. 33a כפן נפיחי, v. כסנא; a. fr. -- 2) to be blown up, to smwell. Targ. O. Num. V, 2, v. Ihpa. (Y. תנפח, prob. to be read; ותתנפח). - Lev. R. s. 33; Cant. R. to II, 14, v. קולתא. Pa. טפח same, to blow, cause swelling. Targ. Y. Num. V, 22 (O. לאפחא, Af.; ed. Amst. לאפחא); a. e. - Part. pass.. מנפה; f מנסהא; pl. מגסחין; מנפסן. Targ. Y. ib. 21. --Lam. R. to I, 1 רבתי (כות׳ חד 1 וכ׳ לי מנפחין עמא כל (Idreamt) all the people were blowing at me with their full cheeks. Ib. מנפחין דאינון (it meant) that it (the wheat) was swollen (through rain drippings). Snh. 43a; B. Bath. 134b מנפח וכ׳ ששת רב R. Sh. blew into his hand (intimating that the question raised was scurrilous); a. e. Af. אפה, אפח 1) to bloaw, swell. Targ. O. Num. V, 22, v. supra. Targ. Ps. XI, 6 דאשתא מפחין (Ms. אשש׳ מפ׳) blowers (winds) of fire (h. text אש פחים). - 2) (with נפש) to incite longing, to cause despair. Targ. Job XXXI, 39. Targ. I Sam. II, 33 (h. text לאדיב). - V. מפח. Htaf. אתשח, thpa. אתבפח, אי׳; Hhpe. אתנפח, אי׳ 1) to be swollen. Targ. Y. Num. V, 27 (v. supra; O. ויפחון, ed. Bed. ויפחון). Targ. Job XIX, 26 (ed. Wil. אתפח; h. text נקפן). Targ. Koh. XII, 5. -Y. Maas. Sh. IV, end, 5 5c אינפחן the wheat shall swell (v. supra). - 2) to be blown, ignited. Sabb. 26a נורא בה אינפה she caught fire.
נפח m. (preced.) swelling; bulk, volume (v. אפוחא). B. Mets. VI, 5 למשאוי קשה ה׳ an increase of vvolume
