פִּיגְמָא

פְּגָמָא, פִּיגְמָאch. sam( פְּגָם m. (preced. wds.) ḥerem, shekets), 1) blemish, discredit. Sot.41a ומי חיישינן לפ׳ do we take into consideration that a scroll may be discredited by reading from a second one in the same service? Ib. תלתא … ליכא פ׳ … בתרי סיפרי איכא פ׳ when three persons read successively from three scrolls, there is no discredit, but when one person reads from two scrolls, there is discredit (it has the appearance as if the first scroll had been found defective); Yoma 70a; a. e. 2) the decrease of the moon, wane. Targ. Job 25:5 עד דפְגָמָא דסיהראוכ׳ Ms. (ed. דפָגְמָא סיהרא, read: דס׳) until the wane of the moon is in the east, the sun does not shine (simultaneously with the moon, v. פְּגִימָה). Pesik. Haḥod., p. 53a>; Pesik. R. s. 15 אברהם … על מלייא רחבעם … הא סיהרא על פִּיגְמָה Abraham, Isaac, … Solomonthat is the moon in its growth to fulness; Rehoboam … Zedekiahthat is the moon on the wane; v. preced. 3) semicircular turret, v. פִּיגְמָא.