דבק, דבק ch. same, to adhere &c. Targ. Ps.
XLIV, 26. Targ. Prov. XVIII, 24 דביק ed. Lag.; a. e. --
Keth. 111b לדבוקי אפשר וכי, v. preced. Nif.
Pa. דבק to paste, glue. Men. 11a וכ׳ לקומץ דבקיה if
he pasted the handful of dough to the wall of the
vessel.
Ithpa. אתדביק, Ithpe. איתדביק, אידבק to be attached,
join. Targ. Ruth I, 14; a. fr. -- Gitt. 56b בהו לאידבוקי מהו
how about joining their ranks? -- Pes. 49a אנא לאידבק
בזרעיה Ms. M. (ed. בזרעיה דאדבק) that I should be con-
nected with his descendants. Sabb. 113b. Gen. R. s. 14
מתדבקין חספין אית can broken earthen vessels be joined
together?
Af. אדביק; אדבק 1) to reach, overtake, attain to, obtain
(corresp. to h. השיג). Targ. Gen. XXXI, 23. Targ. O.
Lev. XIV, 2I sq.; a. fr. -- Part. pass. מדבק joined work.
Targ. I Kings VII, 29 (h. text ליות; v. 30 דיבוק עובד). --
2) to join (plans), to contrive fraud (nectere dolos; h.
text הצמיד). Targ. Ps. L, 19 (Ms. Pa.).
דבק m. (b. h.; preced.) 1) glue, paste. Y. Meg. I, 71d top, v. דבק. Sabb. VIII, 4, v. שבשבת. -- 2) junction. Hull. 50a הד׳ מקום the place where the entrails adhere to the hip. -- Pl. דבקים followers. Yalk. Deut. 824 ודבקיכם אתם ye and your followers. -- 3) nexus, cause. Pl. as above; constr. דבקי, דיב׳. -- מיתה ד׳ duties the neglect of which is the cause of premature death. Sabb. 32a (a Variant of בדקי, v. בדק); Y. ib. II, 5b bot.; Tosef. ib. II, 10 דיבק ed. Zuck. (corr. acc.); Ber. 31b.
דבר (b. h.) to join, arrange, lead (the flock); v. next w. Pi. דבר, דיבר (b. h.) to converse, speak. Ber. 31b, a. fr. ב׳׳א כלשון תורה דברה the Torah speaks according to the language of men, i. e. uses metaphors and phrases adapted to human understanding. Sot. 12b וכ׳ לדבר שעתיד des- tined to speak to Divinity. Ter. I, 2 מדבר . . . . שדברו הרש wherever the scholars use the word heresh, they mean one who neither hears nor talks. Mekh. Bo 7, end, a. fr. ב־ אלא מדבר אינו או or does perhaps the text speak only of -- ? [ברמד as a noun, v. s. v.]. Nif. נדבר to hold communion, converse. Mekh. Bo, introd. וכ׳ עמו נ׳ לא the Lord dil not. hold communion with him outside the capital of Egypt. Ib. fr. Hithpa. הדבר, same, esp. part. f. מדברת being on terms of intimacy with a man. Keth. I, 8 עם מד׳ ראוה אחד (omit בשוק); expl. ib. 13a. Ib. VII, 6 אדם כל עם ד׳ מ she is intimate with everybody. Ib. בתוך מד׳ לכשהיא וכ׳ ביתה when her neighbors can hear her voice in moments of intimacy with her husband. Pif. הדביר to make submissive, persuade, v. דיבור. Macc. 11a לחוד ידבר לחוד דבר the Piel dibber has one meaning (speaking harshly), and the Hif. yadber another.
דבר ch. same, 1) to seize, take, lead, drive. Targ. Gen. XIX, 15; a. fr. (h. לקח). -- Ib. XXXI, 18; a. fr. (h. נהג). -- 2) to conduct one's self (cmp. נהג). Erub. 14b, a. e. פוק ד׳ עמא מאי חזי go out and see how the people conduct themselves (what the religious usage is). Koh. R. to IX, 10, v. כלום. Pa. דבר 1) to lead, drive. Targ. O. Ex. III, 1 ed. Berl. (ed. דבר). Ib. XIV, 21 (ed. דבר, h. text ויולך). Targ. Ez. XVI, 12; a. e. -- Keth. 62b sq. אלמנות מדברת קא כמה עד חיים how long yet wilt thou lead a life of living widow- hood (separation from a living husband)?-- 2) to carry of. Targ. Ezek. XXXIII, 6; a. e. Af. אדביר to take, lead. Targ. Is. XIV, 2; a. fr. -- Bets. 21b וכ׳ אדבריה took him out on a walk; ib. 29a. Y. Yeb. XIII, 13c bot. גבר לה מדברון they introduce to her a suitor. Ithpa. איתדבר, איובר, Ithpe. אידבר 1) to be seized, taken away. Targ. Prov. XXIV, 11. Targ. Ez. XXXIII, 6. Targ. II Kings II, 9 sq.; a. e. -- 2) to conduct one's self. Targ. Gen. XXXIII, 1 4 אידבר ed. Berl. (h. text אתנהלה).
דבר m. (b. h.; preced.) 1) word, utterance, command (cmp. דיבור). I. Bath. 56b (ref. to Deut. XIX, 15) ולא ד ד׳ חצי n statement (testimony) but. not. a partial state- ment. Mekh. Bo, introd. לאהרן הד׳ היה (Tanh. ib. 5 דבור) the word of the Lord came to &c.; a. fr -- תורה דבר accord- ing to the Biblical law. Erub. 81; a. fr. -- Pl. דברים, constr. דברי. תורה ד׳ Biblical laws; סופרים ד׳ Rabbinical laws. Ib. Yeb. IX, 3; a. fr. -- קבלה ד׳ prophetic exhortations or incidental utterances in other Biblical books than the Pentateuch. Hag. 10b; Nidd. 23a; a. e. -- B. Mets. 49a; Bekh. 13b אמנה מחוסרי משום בהם יש ד׳ to word of mouth the rules concerning the faithless are applied, i. e. a verbal agreement is morally binding. B. Mets, 48a וכ׳ בד׳ ונותן הנושא he who contracts verbally has no legal claim. Ib. באבל קאי . . . ואיכא ד׳ he who retracts a verbal transaction with which a payment, of money was con- nected, comes under the category of those against, whom the words 'but the scholars declared' (ib. IV. 2) has been pronounced. -- הימים דברי the Book of (Chronicles. Lev. R. s. 1. B. Bath. 14b. -- אחר דבר (abbrev. ד״א) another interpretation (is this). Gen. R. s. 1, beg.; a. fr. -- 2) thing, affair, object, occurrence &c. Sot. 28b לישאל דעת בו שיש ד׳ an objet which has sense to ask, i. e. a rational being, opp. ומ׳ שאין ד׳ (dumb creatures &c. -- Num. R. s. 11 ד׳ לבינו שבינך that which concerns only thy relation to God; v. בין. -- שבממון ד׳ a monetary affair. B. Mets. 94a; a. fr. -- מענינו הלמד ד׳ a thing (law) derived from the context on the very subject. Sifra, introd.; a. fr. -- אחר ר׳ (abbr. ד״א) something not to be named, a) idolatry. Men. XIII, 110 לד׳א לומר צריך ואין much less priests who have been offering to idols; a. Ir. -- b) swine. Ber. 43b (prov.) תלה וכ׳ לד״א קורא ליה hang a palm shoot around the swine and it will follow its habits (of wallowing in the mud). Sabb. 129d sq.; a. e. - c) leprosy Ib. קשה בד״א פגע אי לד״א if he meets a swine (after blood letting), he is in danger of becoming a leper. -- d) unchaste conduct, sexual intercourse, sodomy &c. Ib. 17b ד״א משום בנותיהן על ד״א משום אד׳׳ ועל they forbade connection with their daughters on account of idolatry, and decreed something else (that a gentile child should bc unclean as though afflicted with gonorrhea) on account of sodomy. Ber. 8b בד״א צנועין chaste in marital life; a. fr. -- Pl. as above. -- ד׳ בעל the person to deal with, opponent, party. B. Metts. 14a את דידי ב״ד לאו I have nothing to do with thee; a. fr. -- מעולֹם ד׳ היו לא there were no such things,
