כיבוש

כִּיבּוּשm. (כָּבַש) 1) conquest, dominion. Y.Hor.III, 48c top בכ׳ הארץ for the conquest of Palestine. Gitt.8b (ref. to Syria) כ׳ יחיד … כ׳ the conquest of an individual (David) is not called a (national) conquest (so as to give the land the sacred character of Palestine); ib. 47a, a. fr.(Gen. R. s. 17 לכבוש, v. כִּינּוּס. 2) = כֶּבֶש 2, ascent, grade. Y. Erub.II, 24b bot. (read:) כל כִּיבּוּשֵׁי כבשים … מכִּי בּוּשוֹוכ׳ all grades of ascents in the Temple …, with the exception of the grade of the altar-bridge which was at the rate of about ten handbreadths to three handbreadths and one third of a fingers width (of vertical height; i. e. 10 to 3 1/1 2), v. כֶּבֶש.Pl. כִּיבּוּשִׁים, כִּיבּוּשִׁין, constr. כִּיבּוּשֵׁי, v. supra. 3) (only in pl.) means of subduing ones pride; reproof; evil prediction, penitence. Pesik. Vzoth, p. 197a> הן וכִיבּוּשֵׁיהֶן they (the blessings) but also the reproofs connected therewith (Deut. ch. 3 2); Yalk. Deut. 550. Gen. R. s. 66 (ref. to Gen. 27:28) (read:) יתן לך ברכות ויתן לך כיבושיהן; Yalk. Gen. 115 כיבושין הראויות לך may He give thee blessings, but also such means of preventing over-bearing as may be proper for thee.דברי כ׳ admonitions to penitence. Taan.II, 1 (15a); Tosef. ib. I, 8.