חֲמוֹר

חֲמוֹרc. (b. h.; v. חָמַר II a. חֲמִיר I) 1) (load-carrier, cmp. גָּמָל. ass. Nidd.31a, v. גָּרַם. Sabb.152a דעל ח׳וכ׳ he who rides an ass is a freeman. B. Bath. 143a את וח׳ thou and the ass (shall own my property, a form of donation implying a rational and an irrational being).Bekh.I, 2 ח׳ שילדהוכ׳ if an ass gave birth to Snh.33a הלכה חֲמוֹרְךָוכ׳ thy ass is gone, Tarfon! (I shall have to make compensation for erroneous judgment); a. fr. 2) (cmp. various uses of horse) a contrivance for working-men, rest, jack, stocks Kel. XIV, 3 ח׳ של נפחין the smiths ass (‘on which the smith sits while using its head as an anvil, Maim.; ‘the rest of the bellows, R. S.). Ib. XVIII, 3 וח׳ a stand on which the bedstead is placed. Gen. R. s. 65, end ח׳ של חרשים carpenters sawing-jack (an instrument for torture); Ib. s. 70 (alluding to Prov. 27:22) אפי׳ … בח׳ של חרשיםוכ׳ even if you put the wicked man on a carpenters jack, you cannot make anything useful out of him (sufferings will have no effect on him); Yalk. Kings 201; Yalk. Prov. 961; (Pesik. Shek., p. 15a> במכתש).Pl. חֲמוֹרִים. Sabb.112b. Gen. R. s. 75; a. fr.Denom. חַמָּר, חִמִּר.Fem. חֲמוֹרָה. Tosef.Kil.V, 5.