- צֹאִי
- צוֹאִי, צֹאִיm. (b. h.; preced.) dirty. Bekh.IV, 7 צמד מלובן וצ׳ (Ar. וצוֹי) washed or dirty wool, (corrected, ib. 29b מלובן מצואתו, v. preced.). Ḥull.XI, 2 מלובן ולא צ׳ (Mish. Cambridge צוי) washed, but not dirty wool; Tosef. ib. X, 5 צוי ed. Zuck. (oth. ed. צאוי, v. צָאָה).Pl. צוֹאִים, צוֹאִין. Snh.93a (ref. to Zech. 3:3) וכי דרכו … בגדים צ׳ was it Joshuas habit to wear dirty clothes?; Yalk. Jer. 309.Chald. צוֹאִין, v. צָאִי.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
