- פמוט
- פָּמוֹטm. a shaft with a receptacle for a lamp, a plain candlestick Men.28a ההוא פ׳ מקרי such a candlestick without branches is named pamoṭ (and not mnorah); Yalk. Ex. 369 פסוק (corr. acc.). Sabb.44a פ׳ שהדליקו עליו באותה שבת Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) a lampholder on which a lamp has been burnt on that (the present) Sabbath day. Y. ib. III, 6c top (also פומט), contrad. to נר.Pl. פָּמוֹטוֹת. Bab. ib. 121b.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.