- ניחא II
- נִיחָאII m. (preced.; v. נוֹחַ) ease, satisfaction. Yeb.118b נ׳ דגופאוכ׳ bodily comfort (even in an unhappy marriage) is preferable (to singleness). Snh.45a, v. בִּזְיוֹנָא. Sabb.132a מעיקרא מאי קא נ׳ ליהוכ׳ what satisfactory reason had he at first (for his interpretation), and what was again the objection he attempted to meet?נ׳ ל־ one likes, prefers. Targ. Y. Deut. 32:50.Meg.28a אתייקורי … לא נ׳ לי I do not want to be honored at the expense of thy disgrace. Ib. לא נ׳ לכווכ׳ do you not want me to live? B. Bath. 172a מילתא דנ׳ ליהוכ׳ something which is satisfactory to the creditor and Arakh.30b נ׳ לאיניש דליזבןוכ׳ it is better for man to sell his daughter than to borrow on interest. Erub.32b; a. fr.נִ׳, הָנִ׳ (a dialectical term, v. נוּחַ Ithpe.) it is right; it will do. Y.Pes.I, 27b top נ׳ העליוניםוכ׳ this is right as far as the uppermost and nethermost cavities are concerned. Y.Yoma III, 40c, sq. אין תימר מיד נ׳ אין תימר … נ׳ של משהוכ׳ if you say, sacred vessels are consecrated at once (as soon as finished), it is right; but if you say, they are not consecrated until they are used, it would be right as far as the Mosaic vessels are concerned, but Ḥull.56a הנ׳ למאן דאמר this would be right according to the opinion of ; a. fr.Cant. R. to I, 6 נ׳ (an editorial gloss, as a punctuation mark) as a positive assertion, opp. אִתְמְהָא.V. נְיָיח.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.