A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/גיניסיא - גיסטדון
גיניסיא, גיניסין (גינו׳, גנו׳) m. pl. (~~~~~~~. o) 1) (with יום) bithday festival, anniversary of death; in gen. commemorative festival. Targ. Esth. III, 8. Targ. Y. Gen. XL, 20 גנוסא (v. גניסא a. גנוסייא). - Ab. Zar. I, 3 (8a) מלכים של ג׳ יום royal anniversaries, expl. Y. ib. 39c birth- day festival (with ref. to Gen. XL, 20, v. supra); Bab. ib. 10a (after discussion) המלך בו שמעמידין יום installation of a king (Roman emperor). Y. R. Hash. III, 59a top; Yalk. Hab. 564. Ex.R. s. 15 ג׳ יום an anniversary (com- memorative of his delivery); a. e. - 2) (=;eiaa) de- scent, nobility of birth. Pesik. Nahamu p. 126ab; Yalk. Gen. 162 שלי ג׳ הודעתם (Gen. R. s. 100 הוגנוסים הודעתי corr. acc.) ye have made known my noble descent. Pesik. Hahod. p. 53a גינוסים בת; Pesik. R. s. 15 בת גינסין (read גיניסין, Yalk. Ex. 190 only טובים בת) a. woman of noble blrth. Cant. R. to I, 2; a. fr. [Sot. 36b וכ׳ מלכות גניסי Ar. (ed. גנוני) I recognize in him royal nobility.]
גיניסר (גינו׳, גני׳, גנו׳) p. n. pl. (Γεννμσαρ. 'evv~p~, a hellenization of כנרת) Gennesar, Genne- saret, lake, town and district of G. Pes. 8b גינו׳ פירות Gennes. fruits. Gen. R. s. 98 (etymology) שריס==גנוסר גני princely gardens; Meg. 6a, v. כנרא; a. e. -- Pl. גיניסריות. Y. Meg. I, 70a bot. היו גו׳ שני (corr. acc.) were there two places of the name of G. ?
גינירות, Tosef. Men. IX, 3, Var. ניטרות, read נינורות, v. ניר.
גינניא, v. גנא.
גינסין, v. גיניסיא.
גינתא, גינא, גנ׳ f. (גנן, v. גן) garden. Targ. O. Gen. II, 8. Targ. Y. IGen. XLXI, 4 גינא (Y. II גנא). Targ. Ps. LVI, 14 (second vers.). Constr. גינת. Targ. Deut. XI, 10; a. fr. - Gen. R. s. 80 (prov.) גננא ג׳ לפום as the garden so the gardener (as the people so the leader); Y. Snh. II, 20d top גננה כן כגנתה. B. Bath. 54a; a. fr. -- Pl. גינתא, constr. נינת. Targ. Koh. II, 5. - גינן, גננן. Targ. Is. LXV, 3; LXVI, 17 (some ed. גנן; v. גיניאך). V. גנא.
גיס m. (גנס; cmp. גנז a. כנס; Syr. גסא divitiae P. Sm. 757) spoils, heaped up treasures. Pl. גיסין. Ex. R. s. 9 (ref. to Esth. I, 4) וכ׳ ג׳ ששה he showed them six coll- ections every day, and not two of them alike; Esth. R. to l. c. וכ׳ פותח היה ג׳ ששה (ed. ניסין, נוסין, corr. acc.) six treasuries he opened to them &c.; (Yalk. Esth. 1046 תסבוריות; Targ. II Esth. I, 4 גנזי בי).
גיס II, גייס m. (גוס II) intimate, familiar. Keth. 85b ביה ׳ הא ביה דג׳ . . ואי (Ar. ביה גס . . . דגייס . . .) but if it is one who is familiar with him (so as to use his name without a title), then, we may say, he spoke of him in a familiar way. - Fem. גייסא. Kidd. 81a ביה ג׳ she was on familiar terms with him. -- Pl. גיסי, גייסי. Ib. 33a רבנן בה דגי׳ where scholars are a familiar sight (and no attention is paid them). Keth. 28a בהדדי גיי׳ they are intimate with each other.
גיס II m. (v. preced., cmp. גיסא III) the wife's sister's husband, brother-in. law. Snh. III, 4 (27b) גיסו (Y. ib. III, 7 אגיסו); a. fr. -- Pl. גיסין. Y. Shek. I, end, 46b; . G..
גיסא I, אגיסא ch. same. Y. Snh. III, 21b bot. ו׳ דר׳ אגיסיה R. HL's brother-in-law. -. Pl. גיסי. Snh. 28b וג׳ אחי brothers and brothers-in-law (two brothers hav- ing married two sisters). Ibb. ג׳ תרי
גיסא II, גייסא m. (גוס I) bold man. Hull. 18b he called out over him ג׳ ג׳ (Ar. ed. Koh. וגיי׳ גיי׳) bold man tthat thou artl
גיסא III m. (גוס II) neighborhood, side. Kidd. 33a ג׳ באידך on the other side (of the river); Erub. 16b. Sabb. 110a וכ׳ ג׳ בההוא in a certain neighborhood of &c. - Yoma 77b. Bekh. 44b א׳ sideways. Koh. R. to VII, 9 when the kettle boils over, שפיך גיסיה על it pours over its own sides (wrath will hurt none but the man him- self); a. fr. -- Trnsf. way, manner. Gitt. 67b some argde וכ׳ ג׳ להאי one way and some the other way; a. fr. -- Nidd. 66a [read] ג׳ להן עליך דתהוו היכי דכי . . . תגלי לא וכ׳ (v. Ar. ed. Koh. s. v. דם IV, 752) do not tell thy friends, for as they wondered over thee on the one side (over thy bad luck), they may wonder on the other side (over thy good fortune, and bewitch it). [Hull. 17b גיסני אתרי, Shhh'eltoth d'R. Ahai 92, ed. רוחתא אתלת.]
גיסה, גיזה f. (v. גוסס) agony of death, dying stage. Y. Sot. IX, 23d bot. גיסתה מקום the place where the ex- piatory heifer died; Tosef. ib. IX, 1 גיזתה.
גיסטרא, גסטרא, גצטרא f. (=גרזרא, a re- duplic. of גזר; for assimilation of sibilants cmp. Ncld. Mand. Gr. p. 4c sq.) something defective, mutilated; 1) a large vessel which turned out defective or unwieldy, by having its handles broken off or being cracked, and is therefore used as a receptacle for refuse, as a pickling pot, as a receiver of drippings from a leaking vessel &c. Kel. II, 6 וכ׳ שנמצאת גס׳ (Ar. גצרא) a defective vessel found in the furnace (in which vessels are put for baking); Tosef. ib. B. Kam. III, 10 גסטרה היתה ואם but if the jug turned out a gistra, contrad. to נפחתה. Ib. וכ׳ אזניה שנסדקין כל גסטרא היא זו אי (Kel. IV, 3 וכ׳ שניטלו כל גיס׳ . . . .) when is a vessel called gisiraf When its handles are split (broken of) &c. Ib. 2 גי׳ וכ׳ שנתרועעה if a gistra is broken so as to be no longer a receptacle for liquids, though it may yet re- ceive eatables, it is not susceptible of uncleanness, for there is no fragment of a fragment, i. e. a fragment of a gistra is no longer considered a vessel. Sabb. 96a (a. leaking gistra is not considered a vessel) because nobqdy says לג׳ ׳ הבא bring a g. to be put under a gistra; a. fr. -- 2) an animal body maimed to disfigurement. Hull. 21a; gb נבלה ג׳ עשאה if one made an animal a gistra by lacerating some of its limbs, it is considered a carcass. Ib. 52a קאמריתו ג׳ ye speak of a maimed body (a rib on each side disjointed)l Ib. 27a ג׳ לישוייה דלא that in cutt- ing the animal's throat one must not make it a gistra