- שגר
- שָׁגַר(Shaf. of גרר; cmp. נגר) to run, flow.Part. pass. שָׁגוּר; f. שְׁגוּרָה fluent, spoken without hesitation. Ber.V, 5 אם ש׳ תפלתיוכ׳ if my prayer is fluent in my mouth, I know , v. טָרַף; Tosef. ib. III, 3 שָׁגְרָה ed. Zuck. (Var. שגורה).(Cant. R. to I, 15 שוגרת, v. infra. Pi. שִׁיגֵּר 1) to speak with fluency. Ex. R. s. 9 כיון ששִׁיגְּרוּ … בפיהםוכ׳ when they recited (these verses) the whole night with fluency, they considered it a good sign 2) to make run, to send. Tanḥ. Mick. 8 תפוש … ושַׁגֵּר אותם לפני arrest them and send them up before me; Gen. R. s. 91. Ib. וש׳ בשבילםוכ׳ and sent (messengers) out for them to hunt them up Tosef.Sabb.XIII (XIV), 9 ולהיפרכוס שלהן ש׳ לווכ׳ and to their commander he sent a present of fifty denars. Ber.51a, sq. מְשַׁגְּרוֹ לאנשיוכ׳ he sends it as a gift to his household. Snh.59b אחד משגרווכ׳ he sent out one (serpent) to the south B. Bath. 146a. Sot.35b שִׁגְּרוּוכ׳, v. נוֹטָרִין a. fr.Part. pass. מְשוּגָּר; f. מְשוּגֶּרֶת. Cant. R. to IV, 1, v. רוֹגְלִית; ib. to I, 15 שיגרת corr. acc.). Hif. הִשְׁגִּיר (to speak fluently, to improvise a prayer, change the established form. Y.Ber.V, 9c שליח צבור שה׳ שתיםוכ׳ if a reader improvises two or three sections (of the Prayer of Benedictions), we do not make him go back and recite the established form.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.