- משקל
- מִשְׁקָלm. (b. h.; שָׁקַל) weighing, weight. Tosef.Ḥull.IX, 9 לקח הימנו במ׳ if he bought of him by the weight. B. Bath. V, 10 על כל מ׳ ומ׳ as often as he uses the weights; Sifra Kdosh. Par. 3, ch. VIII על כל מ׳ מ׳ (corr. acc.). Ib. (ref. to Lev. 19:35), v. טוּרְטִינִי. Ker.5a לא יניח מ׳ במ׳וכ׳ he must not use one weighed species as a weight for the other; a. fr.Pl. מִשְׁקָלוֹת. Sifra. l. c.; B. Bath. l. c.; v. מָחָה. Tunḥ. Balak 12 מְעַוֵּל ומשקר במ׳ (not מעולה) committing wrong and fraud in weights; ib. משקר במ׳ using false weights; Yalk. Num. 765; a. fr.
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