- פִּרְפֵּר
- פִּרְפֵּר, פִּירְ׳II (preced.; cmp. פִּרְכֵּס I a. II) (to grind,) to move convulsively, struggle (in agony). Snh.37b והרוג מְפַרְפֵּר and (you saw) the slain struggle; Shebu.34a. Yoma 23a עדיין בני מפרפר my son is still moving (not yet dead; ib. b קיים); Tosef. ib. I, 12; Y. ib. II, 39d top; Sifré Num. 161; a. e.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
