- לחתא
- לִחֲתָא, לִיחֲתָא, לוּ׳f. (v. לֶחִי, לִחְיָא), ל׳ דכרעא the splint-bone, the outer, smaller bone of the leg, fibula. Yeb.103a האי מאן דסגי על ל׳ דכרעיה Ar. ed. Koh. (Var. לו׳; ed. לִי׳) he who walks on his splint-bone (his feet being turned outward so as to form an obtuse angle).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.