- כחול) כוחל
- (כְּחוֹל) כּוֹחָל m. (cmp. גחל, v. Lane Customs, 1837, p. 51 sq.) koḥl, a powder used for painting the eye-lids, stibium. Sabb.VIII, 3 (78b) כּוֹ׳ Ar. (ed. כְּח׳); Y. ib. 11b bot. כו׳. Ḥull.88b השחור והכ׳ powdered coal and stibium. Snh.14a; Keth.17a (in a song) לא כֹּחָל here is no paint (no showiness). Tosef.Nidd.VI, 4 כוחל, read: בּוֹחַל.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
