סַרְטָן

סַרְטָןm. (סָרַט) (scratcher, scraper, crab; Cancer, the fourth sign of the Zodiac, corresp. to the Hebrew month of Tammuz. Pesik. R. s. 20 ואחריו מה אתה בורא ס׳ and after that, what wilt thou create? Cancer; מפני … כס׳ because man (in childhood) grabs out of holes and cracks like a crab; Taṇh. Haăz. 1 תחלתו חלש כס׳ at first man is weak like a crab. Pesik. R. s. 27–28 הס׳ הזה … המים (some ed. הסַרְטוֹן) the crab lives only on what it finds in the water. Yalk. Ex. 418.