- חומסן
- חַמְסָן, חֹומְסָן(preced.) violent man, extortioner. B. Kam.62a (defining the difference between the ח׳ and the גַּזְלָן) ח׳ יהיבוכ׳ the ḥamsan takes by force and pays.Pl. חַמְסָנִים, חַמְסָנִין. Snh.25b הוסיפו עליהן … והח׳ (Ar. והחוֹ׳) they added to them (the class of persons disqualified for judges or witnesses) the robbers and those taking forcibly (and paying); Y.Shebu.VII, 37d bot,; Y.R. Hash. I, 57c top.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.