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- נָחָשm. (b. h.; נָחַש) 1) (the hissing, serpent. Gen. R. s. 22 נ׳ הקדמוני the original serpent (the seducer of Eve). Ib. s. 20 נ׳ זה רשע בעל תשובות that serpent is wicked and skilled in arguments. Bekh.8a נ׳ לשבע שניםוכ׳ a serpents pregnancy lasts seven years, and for that wicked animal I find no parallel (in the vegetable kingdom). Gen. R. s. 54 הנ׳ של בית the domestic serpent (harmless); a. fr.Pl. נְחָשִׁים. Ib. s. 84 נ׳ ועקרבים snakes and scorpions; a. fr. 2) a pungent (poisonous) fluid in the leaves or in the stems of onions kept for a long time in the ground. Erub.29b. 3) a disease of the eye, v. חִלָּזוֹן. Bekh.VI, 2 חלזון נ׳וכ׳, expl. ib. 38b as identical with חלזון; Tosef. ib. IV, 2; Sifra Emor ch. II, Par. 3.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.