Yoma53b וכ׳ לאחוריו פ׳ שלש שיפסיע צריך המתפלל he who
is in prayer (when a person enters), must pass three steps
backward (when he ends his prayer), and then tturn around
to salute. Ib. אחת בכריעה פ׳ שלש להו דפסעי they made
the three steps backward with one bow. Snh. 22a (he who
loses his wife) מתקצרות פפסיעותיו has his steps shortened
(his energies broken, with ref. to Job XVIII, 7). Sabb.
63b גסות פסיעותיהם שהיו who used to make wide steps.
Num. R. s. 4; a. fr.
פסיעתא, פסיעא ch. same. Targ. Ps. XVIII, 37; II am. XXII, 37;a. e. -Pl. פסיעתא, פיען. Targ. Job XIV, 18 (not פסיעותי). Ib. XXXI, 4; a. fr. -- Y. Snh. VIII, 26b bot. מפסיד הוא פ דהליךתרתין בגין shall he be at a disadvantage, because he walked two steps (into the court room) ; Y. Shebu. VII, 38a (corr. acc.); Y. Keth. IX, 33b bot.
פסיפון, פסיפין, Pesik. Vattom., p. 131a Ar., v. פיספיסאי. -- Lam. R. to II, 1 Mus., v. next w.
פסיפס פספס, פיס׳ m. (פסס, cmp. פסיסית) 1) cut and polished stone block, used for paving foors, stone pavementt, mosaic. Ab. d'R. N. ch. XXVIII שיש פסי׳ אאבן וכ׳ ed. Schechter (ed. פיספס) a paving block which has four poliished sides (a metaphor for a many-sided scholar). Y. Sabb. VII, 10b top פ׳ שם בשאין where there is no stone pavement. Ib. XII, beg. 13a (0Chald. dict.) פ׳ מקטע he who trims a paving stone (or die, v. infra). Ex. R. s. 10 בתיהם בפ׳ בשיש . . . גדולים של the houses of the nobles which were paved with marble or blocks; Yalk. Sam. 102 בתי והפספסים השיש (pl.); Yalk. Ps. 820 הפ׳ ובתי השיש בתי (Midr. Till. to Ps. CV הסיפים בתי, v. סף). Deut. R. s. 1 וכ׳ הפ׳ בפ׳ ואם and if (she wipes her hands) on the pave- ment, the pavement will be blackened, but her hands will not be clean; a. e. -- Pl. פסיפסים, פמיפשין, פסספ׳, פיס׳. Yalk. Sam. l. c.; Yalk. Ps. l. c., v. supra. Midd. I, 6 וכ׳ פסי׳ ראשי Var. in Ar. s. v. פששפש (Mish. ed. פספ׳; Talm. ed.פישפשין) the ends of the fag-stones in the pavement indicated the mark between the sacred and the secular grounds [comment.; blocks on the ceilingז; ib.I, 6; a. e. -- [Tosef. Zeb. VII, 1 פסיפסין, Var. פסיפיסין, v. פשפש I.]-- 2) cube, die. -- Pl. as ab. Y. R. Hash. I, 57c top (expl. בקוביא המשחק) בפסי׳ המשחק hewho lays with dice; Snh. 25b, a. e. בפיסספ׳ (Rtashi; blocks of wood); Y. . c. פסיפסיו את משישבור (he is not reinstated from his civil disabilities,)until he breaks his dice; Snh. l. c. יספססיהן את משישברו; Y. Shebu. VII, 37a bot. פיספסיו; Y. Snh. III, beg., 21a (also סשיפשין). Midr. Till. to Ps. XXVVI, 10 וכ׳ בפספ׳ המשחקין אלו that. means those who play with dice, who calculate (throw) with the left hand and press with the right hand, and rob and wrong one another; a. e. -- 3) check (in gar- ments), square, or stripe (cmp. פס). Neg. XI, 7 הוא והרי יתידי פסי׳ ed. Dehr. (ed. פסספס) suppose there is only one (white) stripe in the whole garment?-- Pl. as ab. Ib. וכ׳ צבועים פ׳ בה שיש קייטא a pieced sheet in which there are checkers colored and white; Tosef. ib. V, 10. Yglk. Jfob 927 וכ׳ עכחות שלו הדיהות פספסין (or הדוחות, not הסוחות פספסי) the faintest checkers (or stripes) of the Leviathan's skin ontshine the sun (v. Yalk. Lev. 653). -- 4) voting tablet, verdict. Lam. R. to II, , v. חיתוך. -- [The contact between the Hebrew and Greek languages in- fluenced the form פסיפם and the coincidence of some meanings of our word with bbעo~ pebble.]
*פסיפס ch. same. Targ. IKings V, 31 פ׳ אבן Ar. (ed. פסילן אבנין; h. text גזית). - Y. Sabb. XII, beg. 13c מקטע פספס, v. preced.
פסיק. פסיק, v. פסק.
פסיקא I f. (פסק) 1) part, fraction. B. Bath. 62b, sq.. contrad. to פלגא. -- 2) sabscription for charity, collection. Lev. R. s. 32, end בציבורא פ׳ לך עבדין ואנן and we shall arraoge a collection for you in the assembly; ליה עבדון פ׳ they made up a purse for him. Ib. s. 5 פסיקה עביד וכ׳ למתן (not למיתן) arranged a subscription for a charity in the college of Tiberias. -- 3)ס פסוקא, verse. -- Pl. פיקן, v. פסוקא.
פסיקא II illet, v. פסיקיא.
פסיקה f. (פסק) 1) cutting apart. Succ. 11a פסיקתן עשייתן היא זו cutting the threads apart is the making of them (the show fringes). -- 2) separated thread. Neg. XI, 8 וכ׳ אחת פ׳ אפי׳ even if only one separate thread was on the coil, and he knotted it. -- Pl. פסיקות. Ib. פ׳ היתה f the coil consisted of separate threads.
פסיקה ch., v. פסיקא.
פסיקה f. (פסק, v. Hif. 4) water collected behind a dam, reservoir, pool. -- Pl. פסיקות. M. Kat. 4a והבריכות הפ׳ וכ׳ pools and ponds which were filled with water on the eve of a Holy Day.
פסיקוליה, Y. Peah I, 15d אחרייא בפ׳, read; כדפסיקו לאחרייא ליה, v. פסק.
פסיקיא, פסיקיה, פסק׳ f. (an adapt. of fascls. as if from פסק) band or fillet worn by women over the breast; girdle; bandage round the legs and feet. Targ. Is. III, 24 פסיקיא (pl. form). -- Y. Snh. X, 28d bot. תחת הברזל את בתן שלו פ׳ he put the iron point of his spear under his fascia. Sabb. XV, 2 (111b) פסי׳ ושל (Bab. ed. פסקיא) and the cords of the breast bandage. Ib. (113a) וכ׳ בפ׳ דלי קושרין (Bab. ed. בפסק׳ you may (on the Sabbath) tie up (the broken rope of) a bucket with a fascia, but not with a rope. Ib. 113a פ׳ או פונדא עליו כירך (Ms. M. פסיקא) he may wind a funda or a fascia around it; Pes. 11a פיסקיא (Ms. M. פסיקיא; early ed. פסקי, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note). Y. Kil. IX, end, 32d פיסקי (corr. acc.), v. ענל I; a. e. -- Pl. form כיקין. Sifre Num. 131 שלה פ׳ מתחת . . . מוציאה והיא (not פסוקין) she took an impression of Peor from under her breast band (Snh. 106a חיקה).
פסיקתא, פסק׳ I (פסק) 1) apportionment, agreement to payy, esp. dowry. M. Kat. 18b פ׳ שטרי agreements stating the amounts which the parents promise to their respective son or daughter; Kidd. 9b; Keth. 102b; a. fr. - 2) section,
