פשח

פָּשַׁח(b. h. Pi.) to split, tear off, strip. Y.Yeb.XVI, 15d נתלה … ופְשָׁחוֹ he suspended himself from a branch of an olive tree and tore it off (for a weapon); Bab. ib. 122b; Tosef. ib. XIV, 10.Tosef.Neg.V, 13 פשח מן הנימין read with R. S. to Neg. XI, 10 פָּשָׂה. Nif. נִפְשַׁח to be stripped, split. Shebi. IV, 6 אילןשנ׳וכ׳ if a tree is split, you may tie it up in the Sabbatical year, not that it may grow together again, but that it may not split farther. Ukts. III, 8; Tosef.Kel.B. Kam.I, 13; Ḥull.128b, v. עָרָה II. Ib. 127b. אילןשנ׳ ובו פירות if a tree is stripped, and on it (on the branch torn off) are fruits; a. e.