- נַכֵּי
- נַכֵּיm. (preced.) 1) deduction; less. Gitt.15b; B. Bath.57a נ׳ ריבעא (the whole) less a quarter, i. e. three fourths (cmp. דַּל I). 2) loss, harm. Y.Kidd.IV, 66b bot. משם מה נַכְּיֵיה because of ‘what is his loss?, i. e. because it makes no difference in the law.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.