A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/חמלא - חמץ
חמלא, v. חמילה.
חמלתא, v. הימלתא.
חמם (חימום) m. (v. next w.; cmp. ~~~~~~, v. Sm. Ant. s. v.) amomum, an lIndian (also Syriac) spice. Ikts. III, 5 (some ed. incorr. חמס); Nidd. 51b חימות (corr. acc.); Sifre Deut. 107 חימום; Y. Erub. IX, end, 25d חכם (corr. acc.); Y. Hag. III, 79c חמה (corr. acc.). -- Gen. R. s. 45. beg. צריכה היא ה׳ (הימוס, corr. acc.) she needs amomuim (as medicine for sterility). Cmp. הימלתא, אמיתא.
חמם (b. h.) to be warm, hot; [of color) to be dark, red; (of taste) to be pungent, sour, bitterl. Part. חם, q. v. Pi. חמם to heat, iwarm, boil. Y. Ned. IV, 38c bot. לחמם ידיו את בו to warm his hands against it (the bread). Gen. R. s. 14, end הגוף מחממת keeps the body warm. Sabb. 40b וכ׳ ומההממתה and warms it (her hand) before the fire; a. fr. Hif. היחם same. Bets. II, 5 וכ׳ יחם לא one must not prepare warm water for &c. Sabb. 40a להחם . . התחילו בשבת the bathers began to heat (the water) on the Sab- bath; a. fr. - Part. מיחם, מהם, pl. מחמין. Ib.b; Tosef. ib. III (IV), 7 וכ׳ אדם מיחם (ed. Zuck. מייחם, read; מיחים), v. אלונטית I; [Y. ib. XIX, 17a bot. אדם הוא מחמין (read as ib. IX, 12a bot. וכ׳ הוא מחמםl. -- Ib. הסכנה מפני אם וכ׳ לו מחמין if it is for the sake of averting danger to ife, may we not even boil water on the Sabbath? --- Bets. 22a; a. v. fr. Nif. נחם, נחום to be warmed. Sabb. III, 5 (41a) בשביל שיחמו that they become warm; ib. 41b שיחומו; Tosef. ib. III (IV), 5 שייחמו; a. e. Hof. הוחם same. Sabb. 134b שהוחמו, v. הם II. Y. Bets. II, 61a; a. fr. -- B. Mets. VI, 3 הוהמה the animal was over- taken by the heat. Hithpa. תתחמם, Nithpa. נתחמם to warm one's self; to become heated. Bets. II, 5; Tosef. Sabb. l. c. Tam. I, 1. Ab. II, 10 וכ׳ מתחבם הוי warm thyself by the fire of the scholars (try to associate with them); a. fr. -- Y. Sot. I, 16c bot. נתח׳ was heated (had pollution). Gen. R. s. 24 מתחבמים, מתחממות conceived.
חמם ch. same. Targ. O. Gen. XVIII, 1; a. e.; v. חום. Po. חמים to warm, heat. -- PPart. pass. מחמם. Targ. Hos. VII, 7. Af. 1) אחים to heat, excite, v. חום. - 2) אחמם to become hot; to have pollution. Nidd. 43a וכ׳ א׳ והדר אחמומי כל getting heated once and again immediately after. thpa. אתחמם, tthpe. איחמם 1) to warm ond'sself. Targ. Y. II Gen. XVIII, 1. - Sabb. 110b איח׳ כד ed. (Ms. M. את׳, v. supra) when he had warmed himself ---*2) to restrainו one's anger. Targ. II Esth. V, 10 [prob. to be read; ואתחמס, v. המס; cmp. מןl.
חמן m., pl. חמנים (b. h.; v. חמה) solar columns. [prob. a phallus, cmp. חניסנסיאl. Sifra B'har ch. IX, end (ref. to תקימו לא, Lev. XXVI, 1) וכ׳ הח׳ אלו that means the hammanim on roo-tops. Mekh. Bo, s. I (ref. o Ex. XII, 21) מחבניכם משכו withdraw from your h. Ib. Yithro, s. 5, end לח׳. Ib. s. 6 הח׳ מן (ed. Weiss a. br. everywhere ע״).
חמס, Duts. III, 5, v. חמם.
חמס (b. h.; v. Ges. H. Dict.10 s. v.) [to be heated, passiionate,] to insult, do violence, to rob. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 40d bot. וכ׳ חמוס אלא .. . סוף לא finally one does not. say to another man, Kill that man, but, Attack &c. Gen. R. s. 45 (ref. to המסי, ib. X VI, 5) וכ׳ בדברים את חומסני thou provokest me to speak harshly, because thou seest. &c. Ib. s. 65, beg. וחומסת גוזלת . . . מלכות the wicked government (Romme) robs and extorts; a. fr. -- Loev. R. s. 26i וחומסיו ודור דור each generation with its violent mer. - Part. pass. המוס. Ib. s. 30 אני ח׳ אני גזול I have been. taken by force, by extortion. Nif. נחממס to be ruined (cmp. חבל). Lam. R. to II, 6 וכ׳ מעיינה שנ׳ כגנה like a garden the spring of which has been ruined, so that its vegetables fade. Pi. חימס (of beasts of prey) to seize with fangs, scratch with nails. Gen. R. s. 4b (play on חמסי, v. supra) חימסה פניו Ar. (ed. בפניו, some ed. חימסא, incorr.) she scratched his face; Y'lamd. to Gen. l. c. (quot. in Ar.) אותו חיטטה כנמיה פניו וחימסה she scratched him and marked ihis face like a marten; Yalk. ib. 79 (not חומסה).
חמס ch. same. -Denom. חומסא. *lthpa. אתחמס to do violence to one's self, to restrain onc's self. Targ. II Esth. V, 10, v. חמם. [Targ. Y. Gen. VII, 21 אתחמסי, read; אתמסי or אתהמסי, v. מסי.]
חמס m. (b. h.; preced) violence, extortion. Y. B. Mets. IV, 9c bot. (ref. to Gen. VI, 13) חמסן היה מה what was the nature of their violence? Gen. R. s. 31 (distinction between ח׳ a. גזל); a. e. -- Pl. חמסים. Ib. s. 65 . . . שלא ח׳ גזילות that thou wilt not give me tto eat what has been obtained by robbery or extortion. Lev. R. s. 2. Koh. R. to III, 9; a. e.
חמסן, חומסן (preced.) violent man, extortioner. B. Kam. 62a (defining the difference between the ח׳ and the גזלן) וכ׳ דהיב ח׳ the hamsan takes by force and paye. Pl. חמסנים, חמסנין. Snh. 25b והח׳ . . . עליהן הוסיפו (Ar. והחו׳) they added to themt(the class of persons disqualified for judges or witnesses) the robbers and those takig forcibly (and paying); Y. Shebu. VII, 37d bot.; Y. R. HHash. I, 57c top.
*חמע=חמה; Pi. חמע. Ab. Zar. 68a לחמע, Ms. M. לחנמ.
חמע I ch.=h. חמץ to be sour; to be leavened. Targ. O. Ex. XII, 34; a. e.; v. חמיע. - Y. Pes. II, end, 29c בגין דיחמע that it might turn sour (vinegar). Pa. חמע to leaven. Pes. 41a מחכע חמועי (not מחמעא; Rashi; מחמ אחמויעי Af.) (the four) causes leavening. r Part. pass. מהמע, v. infra. Af. אהמע 1) to turn sour, leaven, ferment. Targ. Y. Ex. l. c. -- 2) to cause leavening. Tar. Y. II Lev. II, 11 דמחמע (Var. דמחמע); v. supra.
חמץ (b. h.; cmp. זחמס) [to be hot,] to do violence, to wrong. Snh. 35a (ref. to Is. I, 17) חומן ולא חמון אשרו