- קושי
- קוֹשִׁיm. (קָשָׁה) (hardness, stiffness, 1) erection. Snh.55a, opp. (אבר) מת. 2) protracted travailing (v. Gen. 35:17). Sifra Thazr. ch. II; Nidd.38b, opp. שופי. Ib. IV, 6. Yeb.83a; a. fr. 3) hard effort; בק׳ by an effort, reluctantly. Sabb.12b בק׳ התירו לנחםוכ׳ it was with reluctance that they allowed mourners to be comforted and the sick to be visited on the Sabbath (because it disturbs the Sabbath joy).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.