- ספר
- סְפַרch. sam(ספרto cut; to mark), 1) to count, mark, write, v. סַפְרָא I. 2) to shear, v. infra. Pa. סַפֵּר to cut, shear, shave. Targ. Job 1:20 (Ms. סְפַר Pe.). Targ. Y. Lev. 13:33 (not יַסְפַּר); ib. 14:8, sq. (h. text גלח); a. fr.Lev. R. s. 28, end יתיב ומְסַפֵּר ליה (Haman) sat down and cut his (Mordecais) hair; ib. (מן דחסל (מן) מְסַפְּרָא ליה when he had done cutting his hair; a. fr.Part. pass. מְסַפַּר. Ib. אית בר נש … ולא מ׳ is there a man who putts the royal crown on his head without having his hair cut?; Esth. R. to VI, 10.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.