- חס
- חַסch. sam(חס forbearance and peace!, God forfend!, dont say that!); חס ל־ (God spare him!, far from him! Targ. Gen. 44:7 (h. text חָלִילָה); a. e.Kidd.44b וחס ליה לזרעיהוכ׳ and far it is from the son of Abba … (Samuel) to have said so; Ḥull.111b. Y. Ḥag.II, 77d bot. חס ליה לאוכ׳ far from him! He never did
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
