פצע

פָּצַע(b. h.; cmp. preced.) 1) to split, crack or squeeze open; to wound. B. Kam.93a הכני פְּצָעֵנִי על מנת לפטור פטור (if one said to ones neighbor) strike me, wound me, with the condition that thou be free (from indemnity): he is free. Ib. הכני פצעני על מנת לפטורוכ׳ (if he said) ‘strike me, wound me, (and he is aked,) with the condition that I shall be free?, and he answers, yes. Sabb.VII, 2 הפּוֹצֵעַ שני חוטין he who divides off two threads (on the loom). Tosef. ib. VIII (IX), 21 כדי לִפְצוֹעַוכ׳ large enough to divide with it two threads (on each side) at a time. Yalk. Gen. 38 פְּצַעְתִּיו, v. פֶּצַע. Sabb.75a הצר חלזון והפּוֹצְעוֹ he who catches a snail and breaks it open (squeezes it out); Tosef. ib. VIII (IX), 2 לפצעו (corr. acc.). Sabb. l. c. שפְּצָעוֹ מת when he squeezed it out after it was dead. Y. ib. XVII, beg.16a לִפְצוֹעַ בו אגוזים to open nuts with it. Tosef.Kel.B. Kam. I, 6 פּוֹצְעִין את מוחווכ׳ (not פצעין), v. גֶּזֶר; a. fr.Part. pass. פָּצוּעַ; pl. פְּצוּעִים, פְּצוּעִין. Teb. Yom III, 6 זיתים פ׳ burst olives. Ter. X, 7 פְּצוּעֵי תרומה burst olives set aside for priests gifts; a. e.Esp. פְּצוּעַ דַּכָּא (פְּ׳ דַּכָּה) one whose testicles are crushed (forbidden to marry, Deut. 23:2). Yeb.VIII, 1. Ib. 2 איזה פ׳ ד׳ כל שנִפְצְעוּוכ׳ what is meant by ptsuʿa dakka? One whose testicles, one or both, are crushed. Ib. 75b פ׳ ד׳ בידי שמים כשר one whose testicles are crushed from a natural cause (not through human action) is permitted to marry. Ib. (ref. to Deut. l. c.) היינו דקרינן פְּצוּעַ ולא קרינן פְּצִיעַ Ar. it is therefore (to indicate human action) that the text has ptsuʿa. (one that has been mashed) and not ptsiʿa (one who is mashed); (ed. הַפָּצוּעַ … פציע …, v. Rashi). Ib. פ׳ בכולן the expression ‘mashed refers to all parts of the genitals. 2) to divide the ends of a web, fringe. Men.40b, כיון שפָּצְעוּ בה שלשה (Ms. M. שצבעו, Mss. R. a. K. שבצעו, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) as soon as they had fringed three fingers lengths of it. Pi. פִּיצֵּעַ same. Y.Maasr.I, end, 49b זית שפִּיצְּעוּוכ׳ olives which they opened with unclean hands; Tosef.Toh. X, 11 שפצעו; Sabb.145a המְפַצֵּעַ בזתיסוכ׳; a. e.; v. infra Hif. Nif. נִפְצַע, Nithpa. נִתְפַּצֵּעַ to be split, squeezed open, crushed; to be wounded. Y.Taan.I, 63d top נ׳ בנו his son was wounded (or had a fracture). Yeb. l. c.; a. e.Num. R. s. 10 (ref. to Prov. 23:29) זו הזונה … נִפְצַעַתוכ׳ that is the adulteress who is wounded with wounds of love, ‘for naught, without any wound through her husband. Orl. III, 8 נִתְפַּצְּעוּ האגוזים if the nuts (in the mixture) were cracked; Tosef.Ter.V, 10. Hif. הִפְצִיעַ 1) to split. Y.Shek.VI, beg.49c מַפְצִיעַ עצים splitting wood. Snh.IX, 6 מַפְצִיעִין את מוחווכ׳; Y. ib. X, 28d bot. ומְמַצְּעִיןוכ׳, v. גֶּזֶר; a. e. 2) to branch off, spread, scatter. Yoma 28b תימור של חמה מַפְצִיעַ לכאן ולכאן the light-column of the dawn irradiates in all directions, opp. to מתמר ועולה כמקל, v. תָּמַר. Ib. 38a של הללו מפציעוכ׳ the smoke column of the frankincense prepared by them branched off in all directions. Ib. 29a, v. פָּצַל; a. e.