- פקע I
- פֶּקַעI m. (preced.) split, crack; that which bounds off, splinter, piece. Gen. R. s. 94 לא נמצא … לא קשר ולא פ׳ there was not in the timber either a knot or a crack; Cant. R. to I, 12. Pes.84b משום פ׳ because by exposure to the coal fire the bone might crack. Ib. 85a משום פ׳ by striking at the uncovered part of the bone a split may be created in the covered portion; a. e.Pl. פְּקָעִים, פְּקָעִין. Sifré Num. 124 (ref. to Num. 19:5) להביא את הפ׳ R. S. to Par. III, 9 (ed. הפְּקִיעִים; Yalk. Num. 761 הפּוֹקְעִין, v. פָּקַע) this is to include the fragments that jumped off (that they must be brought back aud burned).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.