- נגר
- נָגָרm. (preced. wds.) (trimmed chip, door-bolt, pin fitting into sockets top and bottom. Erub.X, 10, v. גְּלֹוסְטְרָא. Ib. 11, v. גָּרַר. B. Bath. 101a (in Chald. dict.) דעביד להו כמין נ׳ he made the sepulchral chambers like an upright bolt, i. e. placed the bodies in an upright position. Men.33a עשאה כמין נ׳ if he fastened the door-post inscription (מזוזה) so as to look like a bolt shoved into a case, i. e. horizontally. Y.Meg.IV, end, 75c בית מזוזתו … כמין נ׳ the case for the inscription in Rabbis house was made like an upright bolt (reaching the top of the door). Num. R. s. 15; Yalk. Josh. 32 יריחי היתה נְגָרָהּוכ׳ (not נגרא) Jericho was the bolt of Palestine; a. fr.
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