- חסם
- חֲסַםch. sam(חסם IIsteel). Part. pass. חֲסִים bright and hard, flinty.Pl. חֲסִימִין. Targ. Y. II Deut. 8:9; (Y. I שאילן מסימן, read: הֲסִימַן fem. pl.). Targ. Y. ib. 33:25. Pa. חַסֵּם (to scrape, cmp. גמגם, חָכַךְ II) to hesitate, be uncertain what to do. Sabb.147a הוה קא מְחַסֵּםוכ׳ he hesitated to hand it to him. Keth.20b. B. Mets.23b. Ḥull.50a. (Ar. a. some Mss. have הסם; v. Koh. Ar. Compl. s. v. הסם a. Rabb. D. S. to B. Mets. l. c. Ithpa. אִתְחַסֵּם 1) to receive a steel edge; trnsf. (of the mouth) to become able to speak. Lev. R. s. 23; Cant. R. to II, 2 אתח׳ר׳וכ׳ R. E. (who on a former occasion was unable to pronounce a blessing) has received a steel edge, and they named him R. E. Ḥisma; (Ar.: הא חֲסִים אלעזר, v. supra). 2) to rub against, trnsf. (cmp. גָּרַר) to seek a quarrel, to vie with (v. P. Sm. 133 3). Targ. Prov. 24:19 (h. text תתחר).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
