נִימָה

נִימָה
נִימָא, נִימָהf. (נמא, cmp. נְמָיָה = נְבָיָיה, also meanings of נִיב, נִיבָא) (hanging over, 1) fringe, cord, hair (of the eye-brow); bristle; fibre. Bets.14b שמא תכרך נ׳וכ׳ lest a fringe (shred of the garment used as mattress) wind itself around his body; Y.Kil.IX, 32a bot. Nidd.67a, a. e. נ׳ אחת one single thread; Y.Sabb.VII, 7d top נמא (corr. acc.). Gen. R. s. 93 קשר חבל בחבל ונ׳ בנ׳ (Ar. ניניא) he tied rope to rope, string to string. Ib. נ׳ אחת היתה לו בלבו he had one bristle on his chest; Yalk. ib. 150. Gen. R. s. 65, end קשר בה נ׳וכ׳ (Ar. ניניא) he tied a string to it …, and hanged himself. Tosef.Sot.I, 2 כדי שיקשור הגרדי נ׳ as much time as the weaver needs to knot a fringe; Y. ib. I, 16c bot.B. Bath.16a (ref. to סערה, Job 38:1) וכל נ׳ ונ׳וכ׳ for each hair (of the eye-brow) , v. גּוּמָא. Sabb.30a, a. fr. מלא נ׳ a threads (or hairs) breadth. Erub.X, 13 קושרין נ׳ במקדש they were permitted to knot a broken string of a musical instrument in the Temple; ib. 102b נִימַת כינור; a. fr.Pl. נִימִין. B. Bath. l. c. Shek. VIII, 5 ed. (Ms. M. נִירִין); a. fr. 2) (cmp. נִיב) pl. נִימִין mustache. Yoma 38b בין הנ׳ on the division line between the two parts of the mustache. 3) נ׳ של מים (cmp. בִּינָא III) leech. Ab. Zar.12b. (Ib. 10b, v. נוֹמִי..

Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. . 1903.

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