A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/קטם - קטנטין
קטים. Targ. Y. Gen. VIII, 11 Ar. (ed. לקיט; h. text טרף). - 2) to crumble, crush. - Denom. קטם III.
קטם II (denom. of קטם III) to cover with ashes or powder. Shebi. II, 4 אותן קוטמין you may cover them with powder (v. אבק); [oth. opin., v. קטם I.- Esp. to cover pmbers with ashes on which tto put dishes to be kept warm for the Sabbath. Y. Sabb. III, beg. 5c וכ׳ שיקטום עד הקוטם he that covers must not put dishes on until he has suf- ficiently covered (choked the fame). Ib.; Bab. ib. 37ar קטמה, v. לבה; a. e. - Part. pass. קטום; f קטומה &c. Ib. Tosef. ib. III, (II) 3 וק׳ גרופה אחת one part of the double store being swept or covered. Ib. 2 כק׳ הן הרי they are considered as if they were covered; a. e.
קטם II ch. same. Tam. 29b דקטמי משום vers. of Korban Aharon and of Rabad tto Sifra Vayikra, N'dab.,. Par. 4, ch. VI (ed. דקטרי) because these kinds of wood cover up the flames with their ashes.
קטם III. קטמא, קי׳ I m. (קטם I 2) ashes, powder. Targ. Gen. XVIII, 27. Targ. Y. Ex. IX, 8 דקיק ק׳ (h. text פיח). Targ. Lev. I, 16 (h. text דשן); a. fr. -- Hull. 51b ק׳ נהילא (fem.), v. נהל. Ber. 28a, v. א; a. fr. - [Midr. Till. to Ps. XII כולה קיטמא ed. Bub., v. קופסא.]-[Targ. Zech. VI, 3 קטמין Ar., v. קטמנא.]
קטמא, קי׳ II m. (קטם I, 1) that which is lopped; (euphem.) ק׳ בית (cmp. גזירתא) membrum virile. Targ. Y. II Deut. XXV, 11 קיטמיה בית (not קיטמי; h. text מבשיו).
קטמוס, Y. Taan. IV, 69a bot., read; הטומוס or קינסוס.
קטמית f. (v. קטם III) powdered earth. - Pl. קטמיות. Gen. R. s. 90 וכ׳ וק׳ עפר בהם נתן (Ar. קוטמיות) he put in them (the grain stores) dust and powder, things which preserve the fruits (cmp. חומטון); Yalk. ib. 148 קמאיות (corr. acc.).
קטמנא, קי׳ m. (קטם III) ashcolored. - Pl. קטמנין, קי. Targ. Zech. VI, 83 (Ar. קטמין, corr. acc.; h. text אמצים).
קטן, Yalk. Sam. 1124, השמן ק׳, read; קיתון.
טןa. v. קוטן.
קטן, קטן (b. h.) to be short, small, inferior. Gen. R. s. 76 (expl. קנתי, Gen. XXXII, 11) כדאי . . . כדאי איני וכ׳ מכל קטנתי אכל אני I am not deserving (of any of the mercies &c.);. R. L. says, I am deserving, but I am too small for (unworthy of) all the mercies &c. Hif. הקטין 1) to make small; to subordinate. B. Bath. p0b איפה מקטיני those who make the Ephah (measure) small (Am. VIII, 5). Y. Sot. IX, 24b Samuel was surnamed 'the small, עצמו את מקטין שהוא לפי because he made himself small (bore himself humbly). Gen. R. s. 37 (play on יקטן, Gen. X, 25) עסקיו את מקטין made his affairs small (was contented with subordinate services); מקטין עסקיו ואת עצמו את subordinated himself and his afairs, . צער. Meg. 11a, v. קטנות; a. e. - 2) to grmw smaller, be narrower. Lev. R. s. 31 מקטינות, v. רחב; Pesik. Kumi, p. 145a; ib,b מקיטנות (corr. acc.). Hof. הוקטן to shrink. Snh. 81b שיוקטן עד, v. מעין. Nithpa. נתקטן to be reduced, become less. Tosef. Sot. XV, 5 Var. וכ׳ חסידות נתקנה . . . משמת when Abba Jose ben Kitnith died, piety became rare in Israel; v. קיטונתא.
קטן,קטוןm. קטנהf. (b. h.; preced.) small young; nferior. Y. Kil. IV, beg. 29a. Ab. IV, 19, a. fr. הק׳ שמואל Samuel the junior; Y. Sot. IX, 24b, v. preced. Yeb. II, 8 הק׳ a younger brother. Gen. R. s. 37 שהוא הק׳ אם ומה וכ׳ מקטין if an inferior person that is contented with a. subordinate position (v. preced.) is thus rewarded, how much more a great man &c. Gen. R. s. 93 שבטים של קטנן one of the youngest of the ribes; Yalk. ib. 152 (not קטנו); Yalk. Ps. 762; a. fr. - Esp. minor, a boy under thirteen, a. girl under twelve years. Gitt. 65a וכ׳ בק׳ מדות שלש there are three legal stages of a minor; when he throws away a. pebble &c., v. צרור II; וכ׳ מתקדשת בק׳ וכנגדן and in the corresponding stage a girl may be betrothed subject to protest (מיאון). Ib. II, 6 והגדיל הק׳ קבל if he received a. letter of divorce (as a carrier) while he was a minor, and reached majority before delivery. Ber. 47b; a. fr. -- Sot. 22a (among those who are a ruin to the world) ק׳ וכ׳ לו כלו שלא a child whose months are not complete (a prematurely born child), expl. ib. a student who dis- regards his teacher', or a student who constitutes him- self a teacher before regular ordination.' -- Pl. קטנים; קטגות. Tosef. Snh. XIII, 1 ארן רשעי בני קטנים ed. Zuck. (Var. קטני) children of the wicked of the land that died in childhood; Snh. 110b Y. Shebi. IV, end, 35c ישראל ק׳ children of Israelites (that died); גוים ק׳ of gentiles. Keth. II, 3 היינו ק׳ we were minors (when we signed as witnesses). Ib. VII, 9 הק׳ מומין minor physical blemishes. Sot. 48b אמנה ק׳, v. אמנה. Ib. 49bחסידים מק׳ of the youngest (ast) of the pious men (v. next w.); a. fr. - Euphem. קטנים (sub. נקבים) the minor functions of the body, urinating. Ber. 23b; a. fr.
קטנות f. (preced.) 1) youth; inferior position. Lam. R. introd. (R. Joh. 1) וכ׳ ששבקטנותו . .. אוי woe to the king who succeeded when he was young but failed in his old age. Meg. 11a (ref. to הקטן, ISam. XVII, 14) שבקטנותו כשם וכ׳ הקטין as in his inferior position he (David) subordi- nated himself tto one greater .. ., so when he was king &c.; a. e. - 2) humility, modesty. Ib. בקטנותו הוא he was always the same as to his humility. -- 3) (sub. אמנה) want of faitb, pusillanimmity. Sot. 48b (ref. to Zech. IV, 10) ק׳ . . גרם מי וכ׳ האמינו שלא בהן שהיתה (not שהיה) what causes the table of the righteous in the hereafter to be contemptible? The pusillanimity that was in them, in that they had no faith in God; Yalk. Zech. 51 1. - 4) the thinner end, tail-end (cmp. קוטן). Sot. IX, 15 (49a) Abba Jose was surnamed קטונתא, וכ׳ של קטנותן שהיה (Y. ed. תמצותן; Bab. ed. קטנתא) because he was the tail-end (the last) of the pious men (v. קטן, Nithpa.); (ib. 49b חסידים מקטני שהיה, v. preced. w.).
קטנותא ch. same, younger days. Gitt. 29b דאבא הא