- למס
- לַמָּס (מָסַס) unto him who refuses (used homiletically as an independent word, meaning in Greek) dog. Sabb.63b (ref. to Job 6:14, v. Targ. a. l.) שכן בל״י קירין לכלב ל׳ for in Greek they call a dog lms (?). (The sentence is an interpolated gloss, v. Y.B. Kam.VII, end, 6a; Keth.96a; Gen. R. s. 76, end. The interpolator may have had in mind λοιμός ‘a plague, used as adj. in LXX for בליעל.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.