נָזָה

נזי, נָזָה(b. h.; cmp. זוּעֵ, a. נָדָה, נְדֵי II) to move, shake; to drip. Hif. הִזָּה to sprinkle. Yoma V, 3 וה׳ ממנווכ׳ and sprinkled from it once upward Ib. ולא היה מתכוין להַזּוֹת and he did not aim at definite points in sprinkling. Tosef.Toh.VIII, 12 שבא להזות who comes asking to be sprinkled upon; אין מַזִּין עליווכ׳ we do not sprinkle upon him Par. XII, 8 לא יַזֶּהוכ׳ he must not sprinkle upon the spindle and the whorl separately; a. fr.Trnsf. to have a cleansing influence. Tosef.Dem.I, 14; Tosef.Makhsh.III, 15 טהור אחד מַוֶּה עלוכ׳ one clean person has a cleansing influence on one hundred unclean persons; Y.Dem.III, 23c bot. Hof. הוּזָּה to be sprinkled. Par. l. c. ואם הזה מוּזֶּה but if he has sprinkled (on each separately), it is sprinkled (the lustration is valid).