קרקע

קַרְקַעm. (b. h.; v. Schr. KAT2>, p. 583, a. קַרְקָרָה) ground, soil; bottom. B. Mets.31a אבידת ק׳ a loss to the ground, i. e. the duty of preventing damage to a fellow-mans ground through a stray animal. B. Bath.V, 7 (84b) ואם היה (ב) מחובר לק׳ if the flax was bought while standing in the field, v. חָבַר. Ib. 4 הקונה שני … לא קנה ק׳ if a person buys two trees in a neighbors field, he has not bought the ground belonging thereto. Ib. בעל הק׳ the owner of the ground. Y.Succ.I, 51d מן הק׳ from the floor of the Succah. Sifré Num. 126 קַרְקָעוֹ של ביתוכ׳ the ground on which the house stands down to the deep; a. fr.Snh.74b אסתר ק׳ עולם היתה Esther was merely like natural ground (that is ploughed), i. e. in submitting to the embraces of the heathen king she did no act on her part.Esp. immovable property, opp. מְטַלְטְלִין. B. Mets.11b לקנות על גבי ק׳ to be acquired in connection with immovable property, v. אַגַּב. B. Bath. 156b; a. fr.Pl. קַרְקָעוֹת. Y. ib. IX, 17a bot. כשהיו ק׳ ומטלטליןוכ׳ when his immovable and his movable properties were in the same place. Keth.87b, a. e. שעבוד ק׳, v. שִׁעְבּוּד; a. fr.Tosef.Kel.B. Kam.VII, 15 קַרְקְעוֹת הכלים, v. קַרְקָרָה.