- מפרקת
- מִפְרֶקֶתf. (b. h.; preced.; cmp. אַפְקוֹתָא) (that which branches off, neck, nape. Ḥull.113a השובר מִפְרַקְתָּהּוכ׳ he who breaks the neck of a slaughtered animal before it is dead. Zeb.65b חותך שדרה ומ׳ he cuts (with his nail) the spinal column and the nape; Ḥull.21a; 28a. Ib. 10b (in Chald. dict.) בעצם דמ׳ איפגים the knife may have been notched on striking the neck-bone; a. fr.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
