עינוי

עִינּוּי, עִנּ׳II m. (עָנָה II) 1) delay, postponement. Ab. V, 8 ע׳ הדין delay in executing judgment, contrad. to עוות; Ab. dR. N. ch. XXXVIII; Sabb.33a. 2) affliction, oppression; suffering. Mekh. Mishp. s. 18 (ref. to ענה תענה, Ex. 22:22) אחד ע׳ מרובהוכ׳ whether a great oppression (effecting a great loss), or a small oppression; Yalk. Ex. 349. Yoma 74b ע׳ בידי שמים a divine affliction; ע׳ בידי אדם an affliction at the hands of men. Sifré Deut. 130 (ref. to Deut. 16:3) it is called ‘bread of misery with reference to the affliction which they suffered in Egypt; a. fr.Esp. (with or without נפש) self-affliction, mortification of the flesh. Yoma l. c. (ref. to Lev. 16:31) ע׳ שיש בו אבידת נפש an affliction with which a loss of vitality is connected (v. אֲבֵידָה). Ib. (ref. to Deut. 8:3) מה להלן ע׳ רעבוןוכ׳ as there affliction means suffering through lack of food, so here Ib. 77a רחיצה דאקרי ע׳ that abstention from bathing is called a privation. Ned.XI, 1 נדרי ע׳ נפש, v. נֶדֶר; a. fr.Pl. עִינּוּיִים, עִינּוּיִין, עִנּ׳. Yoma 76a הני חמשה ע׳וכ׳ those five deprivations (on the Day of Atonement)what do they correspond to? כנגד חמשה ע׳ שבתורה to the five afflictions (fivefold use of ענה) in the Biblical text; Y. ib. VIII, 44d top כנגד ששה ע׳וכ׳ corresponding to the six afflictions ; a. e.