- נרגא
- נַרְגָּאc. (transpos. of נַגְרָא, v. נַגָּרָא) axe. Targ. Y. Num. 21:35.Ber.54b שקל נ׳ ברוכ׳ Moses took an axe measuring ten cubits. Keth.10b, v. דִּקְלָא. R. Hash. 13a שדא ביה נ׳ he swung an axe at it, i. e. disproved the opinion; Succ.12a; Snh.30b; Pes.32b; a. e.Pl. נַרְגִּין, נַרְגַּיָּא, נַרְגֵּי. Targ. II Esth. 1:2 (3). Targ. Job 41:21 (ed. Wil. נִרְ׳).Yoma 37b; Bets.33b קתתא דנ׳ וחציני (Ms. M. a. Ar. נגרי, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) the helves of axes and adzes. Snh.96b תלת … נ׳וכ׳ (not נרגא) three hundred mule loads of axes of iron that has power over iron (steel).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.