- סוחר
- סוֹחֵרm. (b. h. סֹחֵר; סָחַר) 1) traveller, beggar. Snh.107a דומה לס׳ כותי like a Samaritan beggar (v. Midr. Till. to Ps. 19, end, a Lev. R. s. 5; Rashi: a Samaritan peddler that offers his goods by degrees, from the worse to the better). 2) travelling merchant, in gen. merchant. Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 2, v. סַהַר; a. e.Pl. סוֹחֲרִים, סוֹחֲרִין. Gen. R. s. 84 אחיו … לס׳ וס׳וכ׳ his brothers sold him (Joseph) to the Ishmaelites, the Ishmaelites to the merchants, and the merchants to the Midianites Shek. VII, 2 סוֹחֲרֵי בהמה cattle merchants (in Jerusalem); a. fr.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.