- ספירה
- סְפִירָהf. (b. h.; סָפַר) 1) counting. Nidd.73a ראוי לס׳ fit to begin with it the count (of the seven days of purification); ib. לסְפִירַת או כי תזוב for the count required in the case described Lev. 15:26, sq. Sifra Emor, Par. 10, ch. XII (ref. to Lev. 23:16) כל סְפִירָתָם לאוכ׳ all they have to count (from Passover to the Feast of Weeks) shall be no more than fifty days. Ib. ס׳ שהיא תלויה בב״דוכ׳ a count which depends on the court (deciding on the New Moons), to exempt the weekly Sabbath, שסְפִירָתָהּ בכל אדם which everybody counts; Men.65b; a. fr.Pl. סְפִירוֹת. Ib. כל ס׳ שאתה סופרוכ׳ all the counted days together shall be no more than fifty (v. supra); a. e.Yalk. Chr. 1075, v. סְפוֹרָה. 2) writing, recording. Gitt.21b; Succ.24b (ref. to ספר, Deut. 24:1) לסְפִירַת דבריםוכ׳ (the word sefer refers not to the writing material but) merely to the act of writing the words (formula of divorce). Yalk. Deut. 936; Erub.15b לספִירוּת.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
