- ריחוק
- רִיחוּקm. (רָחַק) 1) removal, distance. Y.Maas. Sh. I, end, 53a בר׳ מקום when one lives far away (from Jerusalem, Deut. 14:24). Y.B. Mets.V, 10c bot. קירוב שכר ור׳ הפסד an enterprise in which he who advances the money secures to himself the advantages of profit without the corresponding share in the eventual losses. 2) separation, loathsomeness. Lam. R. to I, 17 (expl. לנדה ib.) לר׳ היתה she became an object of disgust.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.