עדשה

עֲדָשָׁהf. (b. h. pl. עֲדָשִׁים) 1) lentil. Neg. VI, 6, v. מוּבָאת. Kel. XVII, 8 כע׳ שאמרווכ׳ wherever lentil is spoken of as a standard size, it means … the Egyptian lentil. Gen. R. s. 63 (ref. to Gen. 25:34); B. Bath.16b עדש Ms. M., v. גַּלְגַּל h.; a. fr.Pl. עֲדָשִׁים, עֲדָשִׁין, עֲדָשוֹת. Neg. VI, 1 תשע ע׳ space of nine lentils. B. Kam.60b. Maasr. V, 8 הע׳ המצריות Egyptian lentils; Tosef. ib. III, 14 אלו הן ע׳ המצרייםוכ׳; Y. ib. V, end, 52a, v. גַּלְגָּל h.; a. fr. 2) (cmp. φακός) a flattish warming vessel. Tosef.Sabb.III (IV), 7; Gen. R. s. 80 ‘Rashi (ed. עריבה). 3) (v. טְלוֹפְחָא) a trough in the wine or oil press. Y.Ab. Zar. V, end, 45b.Pl. as ab. Bab. ib. 75a; Tosef. ib. VIII (IX), 3; Tosef.Toh. XI, 16. 4) dish of the steel-yard, scales. Tosef.Kel.B. Mets.III, 13 בע׳ אחר המסמר in the levitical law concerning (wooden) scales, the material of the nails (with which they are studded) decides; Sabb.60a בע׳ הלך אחר שלשלותיו Ms. M. a. O. (ed. בערסא; Rashi ed. Sonc. בעדשא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) the material of the chains decides. Tosef.Erub.XI (VIII), 21; Y. ib. X, 26d top אין ממלין בע׳וכ׳ you must not draw water, on the Sabbath, by means of an ‘ădasha (using it as a lever).