סְפֵי׳

סְפֵקָא, סְפֵי׳ch. sam( סָפֶק m. (preced. wds.) doubt). Targ. Y. Lev. 8:15 סְפֵיק (סְפֵק) constr.Ber.3b מי איכא ס׳ קמיוכ׳ is there a doubt before God?; Gitt.6b. Ker.21a, a. e. כוי ס׳ הוא the Koy is a doubtful animal (as to classification), v. כּוֹי. Ib. אצטריך קרא למיסר ס׳ does it need a special intimation in the Biblical text to forbid the blood of an animal of doubtful classification?; Yoma 74b אצטריך קרא לרבויי ס׳ does it need an intimation in order to include an animal of doubtful classification (i. e. is it doubtful with God who revealed the Law)?; a. v. fr.(סְפֵק) סְפֵיק ס׳ the doubt of a doubt, double doubt. Ab. Zar.70a bot. הוי ליה ס׳ ס׳ it is a doubly doubtful case (first, whether a Jew or a gentile opened the cask, and secondly, if a gentile, whether he touched the wine). Keth.9a; a. fr.Pl. סְפֵקי, סְפֵי׳. Ḥull.18b דאפילו ס׳ דגברי גריס who records even the doubts as to the authorities of a Halakhah. Ib. 95b תליסר גמלי ס׳וכ׳ thirteen camel loads of questionable cases of trefah; a. e.