- מַלְקוּת
- מַלְקוּתf. (לָקָה) the punishment of lashes. Macc.I, 3 שהוא חייב מ׳ ארבעים that he (has done something for which he) is subject to forty lashes. Y.Naz.IV, 53a bot. מ׳ תורה ארבעיםוכ׳ the Biblical punishment consists of thirty-nine lashes; a. fr.Pl. מַלְקִיּוֹת. Snh.81b מ׳ של כריתות the punishment of lashes for offences punishable with extinction. Ber.7a, v. מַרְדּוּת I; a. fr.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
