(ref. to Ex. XII, 22) אסקופה אלא סף ואין . . . הכתוב מגיד
the text intimates that he loosens and digs a hole on the
side of the threshold and laughters over it, for saf means
(a cwvity made in) the tthreshold. Ib. כלי אלא סף אין saf
means a vessel; Y. Pes. IX, 36a bot., sq. - ) pl. ספים, ספין,
סי׳ [cut stones, cmp. גזדת,] paving-blocks, stone-pavement.
Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXVIII, 45 וכ נבקעין והס׳ and the blocks
burst before them (the frogs). Ib. to Ps. CV, 30 הס׳ בתי
houses which had stone pavements; (Yalk. ib. 820 פספסין;
Ex. R. s. 10 פסיפס).
ספא, סיפא (סיפא, סי׳) ch. same. 1) door sill, door-post; also (v. סיפא) border, bank. Targ. Ez. XL, 6, sq. Targ. ISam. I, 9. Targ. II Kings X, 21; ib. XXI, 16 (סיפא; h. text פה; v. Pesh..Josh. III, 15); a. fr. ---Gitt. 68b bot. בסי׳ דבבא at the door-ppost. - Pl. ספין, ספיא, ספי, סי׳. Targ. EEx. XII, 7 (some ed. סיפ׳). Targ. Deut. VI, 9; XI, 20 (some ed. סיפי, סי׳). Targ. Prov. VIII, 34 ספי (Ms. a. some ed. פכי, corr. acc.); a. e. - 2) (v..ppreced. 3) blockk, a course of blocks, layer (v. נדבך). B. Bath. 5b הוא זימניה וסמ׳ ס׳ כל Ar. (ed. שפא) every time he finishes a ayer, it is his time (to get paid); ib. 6a (ed. שפה). Ib. 4a ס׳ ועייל ס׳ אפיק (some ed. שפה) he let one block protrude (beyond the line) and one block recede; Yalk. Deut. 913 שפא. -- Pl. ספיין (h. form, as if from ספי, v. ספה). Y. Sabb. VII, 10a top ס׳ דעבד who lays a course of blocks; ib. XII, beg. 13a.
ספא, v. ספי.
ספאות, (ספאיות), v. ספי.
ספג (denom. of ספוג) 1) to swallow, absorb. Cant. R. to VII, 3 וכ׳ סופגין .. סופגת זו חטה מה as the wheat (four) absorbs (water), so Israel absorbs &c. Ab. V, 15, v. ספוג; a. e. - Trnsf. (cmp. לקה, בלע) to receive loshes, be punished. Tem. I, 1, a. fr. הארבעים את סופג receives forty (thirty-nine) lashes. Naz. IV, 3 וכ׳ תסוג . . סופגת אינה אאם if she cannot receive the Biblical punishment, let her receive the punishment for rebellion; a. fr. -- 2) to use a ספוג, to wipe, dry. Sabb. XXII, 1 יספוג לא (Ar. יספג Pi.) he must not put down a sponge (to absorb the spilt wine). Zeb. VI, 5 במלח ספגו he dried the dripping head of the sacrifice by rubbing salt on it. Tosef. ib. VII, 10 ולא מלח וכ׳ ס׳ ס׳ if he put salt on but did not dry it, or if he dried it without putting salt on; a. e. -- Sabb. 145a לסופגן במלח Ar. (ed. לסופתן, v. ספת). - [Tosef. Zab. I, 9 וסופג, read וספוג. - Yalk. Deut. 840 סופגין, read; סופנין, v. ספן.] Pi. סיפג same; v. supra, a. infra. Hif. הספיג 1) to wipe, dry. Men. 7b מספיג ולא וטבל (Rashi; מספג Pi.) he must dip (Lev. IV, 6) but not wipe, i. e. there must be blood enough in the vessel to dip the finger into it; Yalk. Lev. 469; Zeb. 93b מספפג. Num. R. s. 17 והספיגו נטלו he took it.(the fayed ram) and wiped it (with salt, v. supra); a. e. -- 2) to receive drippings, collect. Gen. R. s. 94 אותו שמספיגין עד . . . הזה כשרף like resin which scarcely begins to ooze out, רwhen arrange- ments are mnde to collect it; Tanh. B'midb. 16 (not השב); ed. Bub. ib. 19; Yalk. Ezra 1067. Hilthpaהסתפג, Nithpa. נסתפג to be mipedof, dried. Num. R. l. c. לפניך מסתפג יצחק כאילו as if Isaac's blood had been wiped off. Sabb. XXII, 5 ו׳. .. הרוחן iff one bathed. . . and dried himself&c. Ib. מסתפגיןוכ׳ wipe themselves with one sheet. Yoma III, 4. Tosef. Zab. I, 9 ויסתג . . . כדי time enough for a person to bnthe, come up and dry himself; a. fr.
ספג m. (preced.) drying, wiping. Kil. IX, 3 הס׳ מטפחות (Af. הספוג) towels.
ספד (b. h.) [to strike, beat; cmp. Lat. plango,] to la- ment, mourn. Gitt. 57a לזה סופדח mourn for this man. Snh. 47a, a. e. וכ׳ תסדוני אל do not hold services for me in the towns; a. fr. Hif. הסספיד to arrange funeral or memorial services for; to lament, eulogise. M. Kat. I, 5 וכ׳ קידם יספייו דלא and must not engage a safdan (eulogist) for him thirty days before a festival. Meg. 28b וכ׳ בהן מספידין אין no funeral services for an individual must be held in them (the synagogues); רבים . . ומספידין but you may use them for funeral services in cases of public mourning (for a. distinguished person). Treat. S'mah. III, 4לעניים מספידין וכ׳ mourning services are held for children of poor men at the age of three, for those of rich men at the age of four years. M. Kat. 21b גדול הספד והספידום and they ar- ranged a great lamentation over them (the sons of R. aAAkiba); a. fr. Nif. נספד to be mourned for, be eulogised. Snh. 47a וכ׳ נ׳ לא מת a dead not mourned for and not buried. Yeb. 79b כהלכה ׳ שלא no appropriate lamentations were held over his remains; a. e.
ספד ch. same. Targ. Gen. XXIII, 2; a. fr. -Yeb. 116b בעליך ספדי observe mourning for thy husband. M. Kat. 28b וכדונוה דיס׳ for him who has mourned for others, others will mourm; Keth. 72a דס׳; Tosef. ib. VII, 6 ספוד דיספדונך mourn, in order that people may mourn or thee; Y.m VII, 81b bot. (corr. acc.). Meg. Taan. ch. I; Sabb. 21b, a. fr. למספד דלא when no lamentations may be held; a. fr. Af. אספיד 1) as preced. Hif. Targ. Lam. I, 18. - M. Kat. 25b לאספודיה אתו לא יומא ההוא that day (when he died), they did not come to mourn for him. Meg. 28b אאכפדה וכ׳ לכלתיה held funeral services for his daughter-in-law in the synagogue; a. fr. -- 2) to beat the hip in mourning. Koh. R. to XII, 7וכ ידא בחדא מספיד הוה made the motion of mourning with one hand and of praising (Nebuchad- nezzar) with the other; Yalk Ez. 364 וכ׳ ומספידין. . הוון..
ספדא m. (preced.) mourner, wailer. - Pl. ספדיא. Targ. Koh. XII, 5 (some ed. סומדיא). Targ. Y. Lev. XIII, 45 ועל מהלע יהוי ס׳ (not ספריא) and he shall go around to the wailers (v. M. Kat. 5a).
ספדא, v. סופדא.
ספדן m. (preced. wds.) hired mourner, speaker at fu- nerals or memmorial services. M. Kat. 8a וכ׳ ס׳ בא a wailer came and placed himself at the door (offfering his services). --- Pl. ספדנים, סדנין. Ber. 62a וכ׳ הס׳ מן. . . כששם as the dead are called to account (for their deeds), so the wailers and those who respond after them will be made responsible (for their eulogies).
