וכ׳); a. fr. -- G'mara, that part of tthe Talmud containing
those discussions, decisions &c. which, after the reduction
to writing of the Mishnah, were the materials of verbal
studies until they, too, were put to writing. -- Abbrev.
גמ׳, a clerical mark in the Talmud Babli editions, to
indicate where the Mishnah ends, and the G'mara begins.
גמרי (infin. Pa. of גמר) לג׳ entirely. *Targ. Job XXX, 24 Ms. (ed. לגרמיה). - Pes. 55b. B. Kam. 35b; a. fr.
גמרייה, Y. Shebu. III, 34b bot,, v. גמזוזינייה.
גמרנא m. (Denom. of גמרא) a teacher of traditions. Pes. 105b.
גמש (cmp. כמש) to contract, bend. Yoma 67a Ms. M. 2 (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 20) רישיה דגמיש זימנין ליה חזי ולא sometimes the animal's head (in falling) is bent, and he (theman) cannot see the chord. Pa. גמיש same. Ib. ed. ולאו לרישיה ליה דג׳ זימנין אדעתיה the animal may bend its head, and the man may not think of looking after the chord.
גן, c. גנה, גינה f. (b. h.; גנן) a fenced-in place, garden. -- עדן גן paradise, place of future reward, opp. גיהינם. Pes. 54a; Ned. 39b; a. fr. -- Gen. R. s. 15 beg. מעדן גדול the garden was larger than Eden (Eden was a portion of the garden, ref. to Ez. XXXI, 9). Taan. 10a וכ׳ אחד וגן and the garden was one sixtieth portion of Eden. -- Gen. R. l. c. בגי׳ נתונה שהיא כפיגי like a spring in a garden. Kil. II, 2 גנה זרעוני garden plants. Ex. R. s. 31 שבגי׳ גלגל the wheel works of the well in the garden; a. fr. -- Trnsf. (cmp. hortulus a. אto~) woman. Pirke d'R. El. ch. XXI וכ׳ האשה אלא גן אין gan (Gen. III, 3) means woman who is compared to a garden (ref. to Cant. IV, 12), וכ׳ זו הגנה מה as a garden &c. Cant. R. to IV, 12 מתגניא והיא נעולה גנתי my consort (Israel) is closed (chaste), and yet defamed. -- Pl. גנות. Lev. R. s. 3, beg. better off is he who owns גינה one garden and &c. וכ׳ של ג׳ שנוטל ממי than he who takes other people's gardens on half-shares; a. fr. -- Gen. R. s. 85 בגנות חורש (euphem. for sexual intercourse).
גנא, גינא ch. same. Targ. Job XXXVIII, 1s עדן גן Ms. (ed. דע׳ גינתא); a. fr.; v. נינתא. - Pl. גינין, גינייא, ג׳. Targ. II Kings IX, 27. -- Lev. R. s. 3, v. אגר II. - ג׳ דאשקלון the gardens (or the forts) of Ascalon, name of a Palestinean border place (v. Hildesh. Beitr. p. 72). Y. Shebi. VI, 36c; ib. וכ׳ גנויה דתני מה מן (corr. גנייה) from the expression 'the gardens of A.', we derive that A. itself is considered as foreign land; Tosef. ib. IV, 11 דא׳ גיניא; Sifre Deut. 51 דא׳ גבנייא (prob. גנכ׳); Yalk. ib. 874 גינניא.
גנא, v. גנח I a. גני.
גנאה, v. גינאה.
גנאי m. (גני) disgrace, shame, blame; obscenity. Ab. Zar. 46a a byname לג׳ of reproach, (cacophemistic, opp. לשבח). Kidd. 33b; Y. Shek. V, 49a bot. לג׳ אמר חד one says 'they looked after Moses (Ex. XXXIII, 8) with the purpose of faultfinding; Tanh. Ki Thissa 27. Meg. 25b וכ׳ בג׳ . . המקראות כל words in the Torah which, as they are written (v. כתיב), have become obscene, are in reading changed &c. (שגל changed into שכב &c.). Ber. 33b לו הוא ג׳ it would be offering an insult to him; a. fr.
גנאי, גניי ch. same. Targ. II Esth. I, 2. Targ. Y. Lev. XX, 17; a. e.
גנב (b. h.) [to put behind, aside,] to steal. Y. Snh. VIII, 26b top גונב . . . . את תגנוב לא do not carry off steathily thine own property from the thief, lest thou appear to be stealing. -- Snh. 86a נפש גונב one who kidnaps a person. B. Kam. VII, 2 שנים פי על ג׳ if he is convicted of stealing through two witnesses; a. fr. -- דעת ג׳ ttto de. ceive, to create a false impression. Hull. 94a לגנוב אסור וכ׳ דעת it is forbidden to create &c. (e. g. to make believe as if you opened a fresh barrel of wine as a special attention to your guest, while you would have had to do it at any rate). Shebu. 39a; a. fr. -- עין ג׳ to deceive by a false impression on the eye, to delude. B. Mets. IV, 12. --- Part. pass. גנוב, f. גנובה. Ab. Zar. 44b; Meil. 7b ג׳ תשובה a. fallacious reply; v. גנובתא II. Pi. גנב to keep behind. Ex. R. s. 5 עצמן את מגנבין היו וכ׳ they kept themselves at a distance from Moses and then withdrew. Nif. נגנב 1) to be stolen, kidnapped. B. Mets. III, 1. Gen. R. s. 84; a. fr. -- 2) to be deceived (sub. דעת). Tosef. B. Kam. VII, 8 sq.; Mekh. Mishp. N'zikin, s. 13. Hithpa. התגנב to sneak in. Pesik. R. s. 21, מתגנבים היו וכ׳ they used to have stealthy intercourse &c. Mekh. l. c. וכ׳ אחר המתגנב who steals himself (into the college roonm) behind a nlghbor.
גנב, גניב ch. same. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXI, 30. Ib. 20. Targ. O. Deut. XXIV, 7 גניב (Y. גניב, corr. acc.); a. fr. -- bart. pass. גניב. Targ. O. Gen. XL, 15 גניבנא ed. Berl. I have been stolen. -- Ruth R. introd. 3 (a trial before a Roman court) גנבנון לא גנבתון 'e have stolen'. ׳־wwe have not' . . . ; עמך ג׳ מאן גנבת לא cthou hast not stolen? Who has been stealing with thee?b; Gen. R. s. 37; s. 63. B. Kam. 65b מינך גנבי תורא was it an ox I stole from thee?-- Ib. 67b תרי דגניב עד (he is not bound to pay) unless he stole two animals; a. fr. Pa. גניב 1) same. Targ. Jer. XXIII, 30. -- 2) to go round about. Keth. 19a וכ׳ לך למה גנובי גגובא O thou cunning man, what is the use of thy going round about?; Yeb. 91a; B. Bath. 133a גנובי גנבא Ms. R. (ed. גנבי גנבא, corr. acc.). -- Part. pass. מננב crooked. Targ. Jud. V, 6 מגנבן אורחן (h. text עקלקל׳). thpa. איתגנבב. thpe. איתגנב, איגנב 1) to be stolen. Targ. Ex. XXII, 11. Targ. Y. Gen. XL, 1; a. e. -- B. Mets. 34atop דמיגנבא יימר מי who can say that it will be stolen ? Ib. 24a וכ׳ כסא אגניב a silver goblet was stolen from the inn; a. e. -- 2) to sneak away. Targ. II Sam. XIX, 4.
גנב m. (b. h.) thief. Y. Snh. VIII, 26b top בפני גנב וכ׳ ׳ עדים if one carries an object off in the sight of witnesses, he is a thief (amenable to the lawEx. XXI, 37), if in the owner's presence, he is a robber. B. Kam. 57a
