- כִּילָה
- כִּילָהf. (כּוּל or כָּלַל) (enclosure, curtain, curtained bed, canopy. Gen. R. s. 36, beg. כדיין שמותחין כ׳ על פניו like a judge before whom they spread the curtain (that he may be undisturbed; Lev. R. s. 5 את הוילון). Y.Sabb.XX, beg.17c (in Chald. dict.) ההן כ׳ דעלוכ׳ that curtain before the ark. Succ.10b מותר לישן בכ׳וכ׳ it is permitted to sleep in the Succah in a tester-bed though it has a top cover. Ib. 11a כִּילַת חתנים a bridal bed (without cover overhead). Num. R. s. 12 (ref. to Cant. 3:9, v. אַפִּרְיוֹן) ‘the king … made for himself a bridal litter, that is the world שהוא עשוי כמין כ׳ which is formed like a canopy (v. Ps. 104:2, sq.). Ib. s. 13; a. fr.Pl. כִּילָיוֹת, כִּילָאוֹת (fr. כִּילַי or כִּילָא). Gen. R. s. 28 (Yalk. ib. 47 וִילָאוֹת, some ed. פלאות, read: כִּילָ׳).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.