עִרְ׳

עַרְבּוּבְיָא, עִרְ׳, עִירְ׳m. (preced.) mixture, confusion, tumult, motley crowd. Targ. Y. Deut. 1:22.Sifré Deut. 20 (ref. to Deut. l. c.) בע׳ ילדיםוכ׳ in a motley crowd, children pushing old men Num. R. s. 12 (ref. to Ex. 35:22) מהיו … ובאו אנשים ונשים בע׳ they pushed one another, and men and women came in a mixed crowd. Cant. R. to IV, 4 כל מלחמה … מלחמת עי׳ היא a battle in which more than sixty thousand are engaged is a tumultuous battle. Ḥull.60a אם רצונו שלהקב״ה בע׳וכ׳ if the Lord wanted a motley growth, why did he say, ‘after its kind with regard to trees? Yalk. Esth. 1056 (ref. to נבוכה, Esth. 3:15) הפילהקב״ה בכיה וע׳וכ׳ the Lord cast weeping and confusion into Susan; a. e.(Adv.) irregularly. Kil. V, 1 כרם שהוא נטוע ע׳ a vineyard which is planted irregularly. Lev. R. s. 36 (ref. to Ps. 80:9) מה הגפן הזו אין נוטעין אותה ע׳וכ׳ as vines are not planted at random, but in rows, so Israel