A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/חמר - חמת
חמר ch. same, 1) to be hot, parched. Targ. Job XXX, 27 חמרו (Var. חמרו, Ms. חמרו Pa.; h. tet רתח׳). -- 2) to ferment, v. next w., a. חמירא.
חמר III, חמרא I (preced.) wine (b. h. המר). Targ. Num. VI, 3; a. fr. -- Targ. Hos. III, 1 בחמריה ed. Lag. (ed. בחבריה, corr. acc.) in his wine (intoxication). -- Sabb. 77a, a. e., v. דרי II. Hull. 112a בשר חמר ליה קרי (Ar. המר) called it (that juice) meat-wine. -- Gen. R. s. 91 end קטף ח׳ wine mixed with resin. -- Erub. 53b, v. אימר; a. fr. - Pl. חמרין. Targ. Y. Gen. L, 1.
חמר, חמרא (חמרא II) m. ch.=h. חמור, 1) ass; trnsf. workingman's contrivance, ack &c. Targ Is. XXI, 7. Targ. Ex. XIII, 13; a. fr. -- Sabb. 66b; Y. ib. VI, 8, v. אנקטמי; a. v. fr. -- Pl. חמרין, חמריא, חמרי. Targ. Gen. XII, 16 (Y. ed. Amst. חמרין). Ib. XXXVI, 24 (Y. ed. Amst. חמריא); a. e. -- Gen. R. s. 38 (ref. to האדם בני, Gen. XI, 5) ח׳ בני נאמר מה וכי could we think young asses (built it 1ע-- Y. Dem. I, 21d bot. Ib. 22a top; a. fr. -- 2) דמיא ח׳ sea-ass, name of a sea fish, hake (v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Onos). Ab. Zar. 39a.
חמר I m. ch. (v. חמר II; cmp. חמם) dark; trnsf. mourning. Targ. Ps. XXXV, 14; XXXVIII, 7 Ms. (ed. חכיר, Lev. הביר; h. textt קדר).
חמר II m. h. (denom. of חמור) ass-driver, attendant of beasts of burden. Kidd. IV, 14, a. e., v. גמל. Kel. XXVI, 5 (6) הח׳ ועור החמור עור Maim. (v. comment. ed. Dehr.; Mish. ed. הח׳ עור, Talm. ed. החמור עור) the ass' leather cover and the ass-driver's apron; a. fr. -- גמלל ח׳, v. גמל. -- P. חמרים, חמדין. Dem. IV, 7. Kidd. . c. a. fr. -- Denom.; המר to direct a loaded beast's motions by walking behind t, to load a beast. Sabb. 15 3b; Ab. Zar. 15a וכ׳ אחר המחמר he who drives his beast of burden by walking behind it. Sabb. l. c. מהמר והלא but does he not violate the Sabbath as a driver (by placing his money bag on the ass)? -- Pes. 66b הוא יד כלאחר מח׳ it is an act of driving in an unusual way (the lamb usually not being used as a beast of burden); a. fr.
חמר, חמרא ch. same. Y. Taan. I, 64b bot. אנא ח׳ I am an ass-driver. Ib, יצלי ח׳ פלן let that certain ass- driver pray. [Ib. וכ׳ גוברא ההוא עבון חמר, read; חמש וכ׳ עבירן, v. margin ed. Krot. -- Y. Snh. VI, beg. 23b הא דח׳ שאלתא in that form it would be an ass-driver's question. - Pl. חמרייא. Y. Taan. IV, 67c bot.
חמרא rine, v. חמר III.
חמרא, חמרא os, v. חמר.
חמרא, v. חימרא.
חמרת f. (חמר) a company of ass-drivers, caravan. Snh. X, 5 ( 1 1b); B. Bath. 8a. Tosef. Dem. I, 10 (con- trad. to אחד חמר); Y. ib. I, 22a bot. (incorr. version).
חמרתא ch. =h. חמורה. Y. Dem. I, 21d bot.; Y. Shek. V, a48d top; Gen. R. s. 60 וכ׳ דר׳ חמרתיה the she- ass of R. &c. Y. Yeb. IV, 6a bot. חמרתי my ass. Ib. חמרתה, v. פהת.
חמש f. חמשה m. (b. h.) five (numeral letter ה׳). Snh. V, 3 בחמש (sub. שעות) during the fifth hour of the day. Ib. בחמשה (sub. ימים) on the fifth of the month. -- Sabb. 77b וכ׳ אימות חמשה (sub. מיני), v. אימה. B. Mets. IV, 9 וח׳ אארבעה תשלומי fines of the fourfold or fivefold value (Ex. XXI, 37); a. v. fr. -- Pl. חמשים (נ) fifiy. R. Hash. 21b. Ab. V, 21 ח׳ בן at the age of fifty years; a. v. fr. -- Denom. חמש to divide into five. -- Part. pass. מחומש; f. מחומשת, pl. מחומשות. B. Bath. 150a מח׳ שיהו ובלבד provided the minimum of wool required is equally divided between the five ambs. - עשרה חמש f.; עשר חמשה m. (ט״ו) fifeen. Y. Sabb. VI, 8b (ref. to וחמשים, Ex. XIII, 18) וכ׳ מיני ע׳ בח׳ with fifteen kinds of arms. Taan. IV, 8 באב ע׳ כח׳ like the celebration of the fifteenth of Ab; a. fr. -- Constr. of חמשה; חמשת. Kidd. 30a אלפים ח׳ five thousand; a. fr.
חמש f. חמשא, חמשה m. ch. same. Targ. Gen. XLV, 11. Ib. XLVII, 2; a. fr. -- Yoma s4a וכ׳ ומעלי ח׳ on Thursday and on Friday; a. fr. -- Pl. חמשין fiftty. Targ. Num. XXXI, 47; a. fr. - B. Mets. 51a; a. fr. - עשרה חמישת (חמישת) ffeen. Targ. O. Lev. XXIII, 6; a. fr.; v. חמיסר.
חמשי, חמשי, v. חמי׳.
חמשיתא, חמשתא . (preced. wds.) a collection of five. Y. Meg. II, 73b bot.; Y. Ber. II, 4d קדמייתא ח׳ the first five (mentioned Ter. I, I); בתרייתא ח׳ the second five (mentioned ib. 6); (Readings vary חמשתיה, חמשתא).
חמת f. (b. h.) the skin of a goat drawn of the body without opening the belly and sewed up and pitched at the ends where the legs and the tail were cut off (v. Sm. Bible Dict. s. v. Botttle)נ bottle, bag. Kel. XIX, 8 הח׳ וכ׳ שבצים a bottle (of a skin of a he -goat) whose scrotum (originally made to receive liquids in connection with the bottle) became defective. Ib. XX, 2 חלילין חמת bag of the bagpipe (ascaula). Ib. XXVIII, 5 שטיח שעשאה ח׳ a closed up pouched skin which (boy cutting open) was made a spread skin. Sabb. 152a a woman is דם מלא ח׳ () a bag full of blood (v. vers. Ms. O. in Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 7). Tosef. Kel. B. Kam. VI, 13. Ib. VII, 11 הח׳ הדג מעור a bag made of the skin of a fish. Y. Ab. Zar. IV, end, 44b bot. בחמתו (not מח׳) in his wine bottle; a. fr. -- Pl. חמתות. Kel. XXVI, 4 (5) ח׳ כל Mish. ed. (Talm. ed. כלי, corr. acc.); Men. 37b. Hull. 107b ח׳ בבלאי with pieces of goat skinswraptaround their hands (like gloves). - Midr. Till. to Ps. CXxXVII חמות.
חמת pr. n. Hammath, name of a demon (fever, cmp. חימתא). Snh. 101a וכ׳ דח׳ זיקא the blast (breath; Ms. M. ריקא the spittle) of H. do I see in thy face (an eruption).
חמת, constr. of חמה heat of; מח׳ through the heat of, from the efect of, in conseguence of. B. Mets. VI, 3 המעלה מח׳ overcome by heat through the exertion of climbing up the ascent. Hull.. 4b מילה מח׳ אחיו מתו his brothers had diaal in consequence of the circumcision.