A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/כרכשא - כרנבאות
כרכשא m. (כרכש I) large intestines, great-gut and rectum). Sabb. 82a [read with Rashi] יתיב. . . כ׳ האי (or with Ms. O. יתבא . . . כרכשתא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) the rectum is supported by three tteeth-like glands. Ib. שיני דכרכשתא the glands of &c. Gitt. 57a; Ber. 62b שמטיה לכרכשיה he dropped his gut (from fright). Hull. 49b חיטי דכ׳ the fat glands surrounding the large intestines. Ib. 118a ומעייא כ׳ great-gut and (small) intestines.
כרכשתא I, קרקשתא f. (כרכש II) the shepherd's bell. B. Kam. 52a (expl. משכוכית) כ׳ Ms. M. (Ms. R. כרכוש׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note; ed. קרק׳).
כרכשתא II f. (כרכש I) 1) =כרכשא q. v. 2) (cmp. כרושייתא) tufls, tassels (v. Sm. Ant. . v. Fimbriae). B. Mets. 7a בכ׳ דתפיסי (Ms. R. 2 בכרשתא, corrected into בכרדשתא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 60) both taking hold of the fringes of the cloth (which they claim as finders).
כרכתא f. (כרך) a plantation fenced in from all sides. B. Mets. 22b (Ms. R. 1 כרכאתא pl.; Ms. M. כרארכת׳, corr. acc., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).
כרם (v. כרה) 1) to surround, cut of. Denom. כרם, כרמלית, כרכום II. -- 2) to pile up. Kel. XXIII, 4the washer's chair הכלים כורםעליואת שהוא(ed. Dehr. כורס) upon which he piles the clothes (to press them); Tosef. ib. B. Bath. II, 9 שמוכרין ed. Zuck. (oth. ed. שמוכרים, read; שכורמ׳); Sabb. 88b (play on גדי עין כרמי Cant. I, 14) שכרמתי גדי עון וכ׳ לי the guilt of the kid (-e golden calf; oth. opin. גרי the idol Gad) which I piled (stored up) for me (for future punishment). Ib. הוא דמכניש לישנא כרמי . . . מאי (Ms. M. דמכמש. . כרם, Ms. O. דמכבש, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) what evidence is there that the word ferem has the meaning of gathering (or of pressing, preserving)-- nsw. (by ref. to Kel. l. c.)הכלים את עליו שכורמים. --3) to cover, paint, v. כרום, כרכום I. -- [Tosef. Men. IX, 10 וכורמין Var., v. כמר.]
כרם m. (b. h.; preced.) [enclosure,] plantation, esp. vineyard. Ber. 35a, a. e. אקרי לא סתמא כ׳ איקרי זית כ׳ an orchard of olive trees is called kerem גayith, but not plain kerem. Ib. (ref. to Maas. Sh. V, Isq., a. fr.) רבע כ׳ תני חד רבעי נטע . . . one authority reads everywhere a kerem of the fourth year's crop, the other na (plantation) &c. Lev. R. s. 32 (play on כרם, Ps. XII, 9) ממזרים של כרמן the plantation (genealogy, cmp. יחוס) of the bastards. Peah VII, 6. Kil. IV, 1, v. קרחת; a. v. fr. -- Trnsf. circle of scholars, college, esp. ביבנה כ׳ the college of R. Johanan b. Zaccai in Jamnia (v. יבנה). Keth. IV, 6; B. Bath. 131b; Y. Ber. IV, 7d top; a. fr. -- [Ber. 63b ביבנה כ׳ for which Cant. R. to II, 5 אושא.]- Pl. כרמים. Men. VIII, 6 (s6b) כ׳ העבודים carefully cultivated vineyards (dug over twice a. year); a. e. -- כרם בית pr. n. pl. Bethlherem. Nidd. II, 7 כ׳ ב׳ בקעת the valley of Beth K. (whose soil was red); Tosef. ib. III, 11.
כרם, כרמא ch. same. Targ. Ex. XXII, 4; a. fr. -B. Mets. 104a; B. Bath.7a if one saysלדוכ מוכר אני כרמא (כרם) *T sell thee a vineyard', although there are no vines in it &c.; כ׳ דמתקרי והוא provided the property goes by the name of vineyard (arma); a. fr. --Yeb. 42b דכ׳ ממתניתן וכ׳ he changed his opinion on account of what had been taught in the college (at Jamnia), v. preced. -- [Yeb. 121a בכרמא, v. כרמי.]- Pl. כרמין, כמיא, כרמי. Targ. Deut. VI. 11. Targ. Jud. XV, 5. Targ. Koh. II, 4 ביבנה כ׳ schools, (v. preced.); a. fr. -- Y. Kil. IV, beg. 29a, v. next w. -- Succ. 44b, v. קשקש.
*כרמון m. (preced.) a row of vines in a vineyard. Y. Kil. IV, beg. 29a כ׳ חד נסב if the owner took away one of the five rows. -- Pl. כרמין (prob. to be read; כרמונין). Ib. ביניין ותרי כ׳ תלתא three rows and two intervals.
כרמי pr. n. pl. Carmi in Babylonia. Yeb. 121a דאטבע וכ׳ בכ׳ (Ar. בכרמא) a man that was drowned at C. and whose body was found &c.
כרמל m. (b. h.; v. כרם) 1) a well-cultivated plot; whence (sub. גרש) (grist of) early ripened and tender barley. Men. 66b; Sifra Vayikra, N'dabah, ch. XIV, Par. 13 (ref. to Lev. II, 14). ומל רך כרנמל soft yet brittle; Y. Sabb. I, 2d bot. [read וכ׳ לח לא מל רך soft yet brittle, neither green nor dry, but between the two. Sifra l. c.; Men. l. c. (an- other explan.) מלא כר rounded and full. -- 2) pr. n. Carmel; (prob. everywhere) Aount Carmel. Y. Succ. III, 53d כשעוה כ׳ וכשושנת of the color of wax or of the lily of Carmel (v. ירקרק); (Tosef. Neg. I, 5 וכקורמל כשעוה, Var. וכקורמן; R. S. to Neg. XI, 4 וכקורמין). -- Y. Ber. I, 2b bot. הר ראש הכ׳; Sabb. 35a הכ׳ ראש (Ms. M. הכ׳ הר ראש) the summit of M. C. Gen. R. s. 99; Mekh. Yithro, Bahod., s. 5 (allud- ing to Jer. XLVI, 18) מאספמיא וכ׳ . . . תבור Tabor came (to the desert for the law-giving) from Beth-Elim and C. from Ispamia; Meg. 29a.
כרמלי m. (sub. יין; v. preced.) Carmel wine. Tosef. Nidd. II, 11 [read] מזתג ולא חי לכ׳ הדומה השרוני היין ישן ולא חדש Sharon wine (mixed) which resembles in color the Carmel wine pure but not mixed, new &c.; Nidd. 21a.
כרמלית f. (v. כרם) a marked off plot in a public thoroughfare, in gen. an area which cannot be classified either as private ground (היחיד רשות) or as public ground (הרבים רשות). Y. Sabb. XI, 13a כ׳ נקרא . . המעכב כל what- ever obstructs the public road is called karm'lith. Tosef. ib. I, 1; Sabb. 6a, v. רשות. Ib. והכ׳ ואיסטוונית . . אבל but the sea, the valley, the colonnade and the carm'lith; expl. ib. 7a לרהר הסמוכה זדית קרן a corner plot adjoining the public road; a. fr. - Pl. כרמליות. Y. ib. XI, end, 13b.
כרמת f. (denom. of כרם) vines trained over the wall of the vineyard. Tosef. Men. IX, 10 וכ׳ הכ׳ מן לא (Var. הכדמת) neither from vines trained over the wall nor from those trained on espaliers, v. דלית.
כרן m., constr. כרן (v. כרי, cmp. קרן) roundness, full- ness, essence; יומא כ׳ the very day (h. היום עצם). Targ. Ez. XXIV, 2. Targ. Lev. XXIII, 28;a. fr. [Nahm. to Lev. l. c. quotes a version קרן.]