כילויא

כילויא
כִּילּוּיָאch. sam( כִּילּוּי m. (כָּלָה) finishing), destruction.כּילּוּי סִילְוֵי (or סִילְיֵי) destruction of thistles, name of an insect, prob. caterpillar (or bruchus (?), v. Sm. Ant. s. v.). Gen. R. s. 51, beg. (expl. שבלול, Ps. 58:9) (read:) כהדין כ׳ סיליי כשלשולוכ׳ לימצא is a gloss borrowed from a comment. to Ps. l. c. and absent in Yalk. Ps. 77 6) like the caterpillar, like the abdominal secretion Y.Shek.VI, 50a top כקרני סיליי וכיליי (Bab. ed. to VI, 2 Ms. M. סילוי וכילוי, early ed. only ס׳) the water coming forth from the Temple (Zech. 14:8) will be … as minute as the horns (feelers) of the caterpillar (thinner than those of חגבים).

Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. . 1903.

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