- נָסַר
- נָסַר(b. h. נשׂר, a. שׂוּר; cmp. סער a. שׂער) (to produce a rough, grating sound; cmp. גָּרַר I, to saw, plane. Gen. R. s. 6 כמסר הזה שהוא נֹוסֵר בעץ (the light of the sun produces a sound) like (that of) the plane which planes wood, opp. שף to glide; Midr. Sam. ch. IX. Y.Ber.I, 2c bot. עד שהחמה נֹוסֶרֶת ברקיעוכ׳ while the sun passes in the sky a journey of Gen. R. s. 8, beg.; Lev. R. s. 14, beg. נְסָרֹווכ׳ he sawed him apart , v. גַּב. Pi. נִסֵּר same. Yoma 20b גלגל חמה שמְנַסֵּר ברקיעוכ׳ the globe of the sun which saws in the sky like a carpenter sawing cedars, v. supra. Gen. R. s. 65, end נתנו … והיו מְנַסְּרִים בו they placed him on a sawing-jack (v. חֲמֹור) and sawed his body; a. e. Nif. נִסָּר to be sawed. B. Kam. X, 10 נִסָּרֹות, נִסָּרִים, v. נְסֹורֶת.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.