מַגָּע

מַגָּעm. (נָגַע) touch, contact. Kel. I, 1, a. fr. מטמא במ׳, makes unclean by contact. Toh. VI, 4 ספק מַגַּע טומאהוכ׳ a doubt as to having touched an unclean thing is judged in favor of uncleanness; Ab. Zar.70a, a. e.מַגַּע נכרי wine touched by a gentile suspected of idolatrous manipulations. Ib. 58b.Ib. 69a מ׳ חבירו another ignorant mans touching things kept in levitical cleanness; a. fr.Pl. מַגָּעוֹת. Y.Sabb.VII, 9d bot., v. מִדָּף.Constr. מַגָּעֵי. Y.Pes.VII, 34d bot. מ׳ זבין those unclean through contact with gonorrhoeists.