- יִחוּר
- יִחוּר, יִיחוּר(יחר, cmp. אחר, a. חֲלִיפִין) a young shoot, esp. of a fig-tree. Kil. I, 8. Ukts. III, 8; Ḥull.128b. Y.Maasr.II, 49d top כיי׳ שהוא נוטהוכ׳ like a shoot (of a fig-tree) hanging over into a court (ref. to Mish. ib. III, 10); a. e.Pl. יִחוּרִים, יִי׳. Gen. R. s. 31, end הכניס עמו … י׳ לתאנים he (Noah) took with him … shoots for the preservation of fig-trees; ib. s. 36 י׳ של תאנה. Y.B. Kam.VI, 5b bot. יִיחוּרֵי תאנים; Bab. ib. 59a יִח׳.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.