(the embryo) has no incisions indicating the outlines
of hands and of feet. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 43b bot. היא חומר
בפ׳ the law is stricter in the case of an engraving made
on a tree (Asherah). -- Pl. פיתוחים, פיתוחין, פת׳. Ib.
הפ׳ את העביר if he efaced the engraving. Ohol. XIV, 1
וה׳ העטרות the wreaths and engravings (mouldings above
the entrance); Tosef. ib. XIV, 10 הפתויין.
פיתוחא, פת׳ ch. same, engrabing, moulding. Targ. Zeph. II, 14 תרעיא פיתוח (Levitaפיתוחי pl.; h. text כפתר׳).
פיתוי, פת m. (פתה) 1) persuasion, enticing. Tanh. Shh'moth 19; Ex. R. s. 3 וכ אליך באתי בפ Icame to thee with persuasiveness (mmaking thee believe that thou didst hear thy father's voice), that thou be not afraid. Ib. פ׳ בתחלה וב׳ אותך פיתיתי at first I spoke persuasively to thee, now I will speak to thee words of truth (earnest admonition). Ib. לשוןפפ אלא איןפתיpethiarov. XIV, 15) has the meaning of 'persuasion (one easily persuaded); a. fr. - Esp. enticing a virgin, claims of the seduced (Ex. XXII, 15). Keth. 35b פ׳ ולא קנם לא לה אין she has no claim either of fine (for outrage) or of indemnity for seduction. Ib. 36a; a. fr. -- 2) dialect. for פיתוח (cmp. פותי a. פותח) engraving, mould- ing. -- Pl. שישויין, פת. Tosef. Ohol. XIV, 10 (R. S. to Ohol. XIV, 1 פיתוחין), v. פיתוח.
פיתולא, פת׳ m. (פתל) [twisting,] 1) perverseness. Targ. Prov. VIII, 8. - 2) turn of events, vicissitudes. Yalk. Gen. 12 (play on נפתולי, Gen. XXX, 8) דידי לא פיתוליה וכ׳ הוהwere not his vicissitudes mine? did not Jacob come to Laban for my sake (I being predestined to become his wife); Gen. RR. s. 71 הויין דידי לא פישולייה (pl.)..
פיתום I (b. h. פתם) pr. n. pl. Pithom, a storage city of Egypt. Sot. 11a תהום פי ראשון שראשון פ שמה נקרא ולמה בולעו why was Raameses named Pithom? Because the mouth of the deep swallowed every foundation as it was laid; Ex. R. s. 1. Mekh. B'shall. s. 1 (ref. to החירת פי, Ex. XIV, 2) פ׳ נקראת היתה לשעבר formerly its name was Pithom; a. e.
פיתום II o פיתום m. (פתה, adapt. of ~~bn~) [sseducer,] necromancer, conjurer, ventriloguist. Snh. VII, 7 משחיו המדבר פ׳ זה אוב בעל ba'al ob is the pithomm that makes the dead speak from his armpit; Sifra K'dosh. Par. 3, ch. VII; ib. Par. 4, ch. XI; Tosof. Snh. X, 6 המדבר פ׳ וככ ביןפרקיו that talks between his joints and from between his armpits; a. e.
פיתוניא, v. פתן ch.
פיתוס, v. פיטוס.
פיתותא m. (פתת) bread to be broken. Y. Dem. I, 22a מיניה פ׳ נפל אעיל יתיב sat down to a meal, and the bread. fell out of his hand when he was about to break it.
פיתח, פת׳ m. (פתח) open-eyed, seeing. Arakh. 17b; B. Bath. 128a, v. סמא.
פיתח־, v. פתח.
פיתחא, יתחוןg, v. sub פתח׳.
פיתם, Y. Sabb. XIV, 14a bot., v. פיטוס.
פיתנא, v. פתן ch.
פיתק, פתק m. (פתק; v. פיטק) ball, stone, tablet. ballot; lot, decree. Tanh. B'ha al. 12 בידו עולה שהיה מי כל וכ׳ כתוב פ׳ he who drew a ballot on which 'eldef was written. Tanh. B'midb. 21 וכ׳ כתוב פ׳ בידו עלה אם if he drew a ballot on which Levii was written, he knew that a Levite had redeemed him. Num. R. s. 4[read;] אומר מי וכ׳ שלא לוי של פי׳ שם היה שאם לך who tells thee that I should not have drawn it, had there been a ballot in- scribed Levi' in the box? Ib. וכ׳ כתב פ׳ (read כתוב) a ballot inscribed &c. Sot. 12a חוה של בפיתקה היו לא they were not included in the decree pronounced on Eve (Gen. III, 16). Snh. 102a (ref. to I Kings XI, 29) של מפיתקה יצא ירושלים (Rashi מפתקה) he went out of the destiny of Jerusalemm (i. e. was to have no share in the welfare of Jerusalem); a. fr. -- Pl. פתקים, פתקין (Chald. form) פיתקין. Esth. R. to I, 2; v. דדה. Gen. R. s. 91 הביאו לערב הפ׳ את לו in the evening they brought him the tablets (on which every traveller had written his name). Num. R. l. c. לוי לוי פ׳ . . . על כתב he (Moses) wrote on each of twenty-two thousand ballots, Levi &c. (v. פיק). Tanb. l. c. Snh. 17a פיתקיכם טלו draw your ballots; a. fr.
פיתק, פיתקא, פת׳ ch. same. Targ. Job XIX, 23 (Ms. פיטקא; h. text ספר). Targ. II EEsth. I, 8 פ׳ שמיה . . כסא a large goblet . . . which was named Pithka (Decree, v.. פוסקא). -Y. Sot. I, 17b bot. וכ׳ דתרין פיתק חד כתוכ write out one edict (order) for two men whom I may take with me; Num. R. s. 9. Kidd. 73b פ׳ תלי if the infant wears a tablet (with an inscription). Y. Bicc. III, 65 בפ׳ הוי . . אוף R. J. was likewise on the list (of those to be appointed). Hor. 13b וכ׳ בפ׳ קושייתא כתבי הוו (some ed. בפסקא) wrote out questions on a tablet and threw them into the school-house. Kidd. 70a, v. הזנא; a. fr. - [Hull. 31a פתקא דכולה, v. פקתא.]-- Pl. פיתקין, פת׳. Gen. R. s. 91 פ׳ ומקבל . . . והוה and Manasseh stood there (at the gates) receiving the tablets (with the names of the arrivals, v. preced.).
*פיתקונאm. (preced.) decree. Targ. II Chr. XXXI, 5 ed. Beck (oth. ed. פתגמא).
פיתרא, v. פתר II.
פיתתא, פת׳ f. (פתת) piece (of bread). Targ. Prov. XXVIII, 21. - Y. Ab. Zar. II, 41a bot., v. פיתא.
פך m. (b. h.; פכך) flask, jar with a narrow neck, v. טפי. Y. Hor. III, 47c bot. הפך מן נמשחו were anointed out of a flastkk, opp.קרן; Meg. 14a. Ib. (ref. to ISam. II, 1) פעי רמה ולא קרנו רמה my horn is high, but not my fask is high.' Tosef. Succ. III, 10 הפך פי כמין as if coming forth through the mouth of a flaskk, v. פפפך. Neg. XII, 5 חסה פעו ועל . התורה the Torah has regard . . even for a. man's flask; Sifra M'tsor a, Neg., ch. III, Par. 5. Gen. R.. I4
