רַאֲתָן

רַאֲתָןm. (ראת = רתת) (nervous trembling, a certain skin disease attended with extreme weakness. Gen. R. s. 41, beg. (ref. to Gen. 12:17) פרעה בר׳ לקה Pharaoh was smitten with raăthan. Ib. כ״ד מיני … אלאר׳ בלבד there are twenty-four kinds of skin diseases, but there is none for which connection with woman is bad, except raăthan; Y.Keth.VII, end, 31d.בעלר׳ one afflicted with raăthan. Bab. ib. 77b; Tosef. ib. VII, 11; a. fr.