פָּתַק

פָּתַקto divide, distribute, esp. to dig or open a channel. Y.Snh.IX, 27a פ׳ אמת המים עליווכ׳ if he opened a sluice near a person, and the water came and swept him off. Tosef.Sabb.I, 23 פּוֹהְקִין מים לגינהוכ׳ you may conduct water into a garden on the eve of the Sabbath shortly before dark ; Bab. ib. 18a; Y. ib. I, 3d hot. Tosef.B. Kam.II, 6 אילו הפותקין ביביהןוכ׳ those who conduct their gutters … into the public road. Gen. R. s. 16, v. מַגְרוֹפִית. Tem.12a (read:) ממלא … ופוֹתְקָן למקוה he may draw a quantity of nineteen Sah of water and let it run through a gutter into the bath. Yalk. Prov. 961 כיון שפְּתָקָהּ when he cut its supply off by diverting the channel; Yalk. Gen. 16 שפוסקה; Gen. R. s. 10 שפסקה; a. e. Pi. פִּיתֵּק same. Ib. s. 51, end (ref. to Deut. 2:9) אבל אתה מְפַתֵּק הנהרות וב׳ but you may divert their rivers.Denom. פִּיתָּק, הֶפְתֵּק. Nif. נִפְתָּק to be cut off, divided; esp. to be conducted, diverted. Tosef.Mikv.III, 6 ונִפְתְּקוּ ובאו לחברו ed. Zuck. (oth. ed. ונפסקו) and the water of one pond was diverted and came iuto the other pond; ib. 5 ונפתקו R. S. to Mikv. III, 1 (ed. ונפסקו).