- קורטא
- קוֹרְטָאch. sam(קורט coagulated). Nidd.20a, v. גַּרְגִּשְׁתָּא. Ḥull.105b ומשתכח כי ק׳ בכורא it (the injurious kind of Sodomitic salt) is found in the proportion of one grain in a Kor; a. e.Pl. קוֹרְטִין, קוֹרְטֵי. Ib. 43b תרי ק׳ דמא two drops of coagulated blood; a. e.Trnsf. a man of minute weight, pigmy. Gen. R. s. 16 פישון … ננסא ק׳ קטוע פושכא Ms. Par. quot. Koh. Ar. Compl. s. v. (Ar. ed. Koh. קרטא; ed. only פישון זו בבל) Pishon (Gen. 2:11) refers to Babel, (Nebuchadnezzar) the dwarf, the pigmy, the stunted, of the size of a hand-breadth (v. Yalk. Dan. 1062, quot. s. v. פּוּשְׁקָא).
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