- שִׁי׳
- שִׁגְרוֹנָא, שִׁי׳m. (שְׁגַר I, 2) dragging or casting the legs, hip-disease. Ḥull.51a ההיא אימרתא … האי ש׳ נקטיה (Ms. M. שיגדונא, Ar. שגד׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) there was a case of lambs … that dragged their hind legs (v. שְׁגַר I), said R. Yemar, that is a case (of which, when occurring with a man, we say) ‘hip-disease has seized him (which does not rise from a severance of the spinal cord). Ib. ש׳ שכיח חוטוכ׳ hip-disease is a frequent disorder, severance of the spinal cord is unusual. Gitt.69b לש׳וכ׳ as a remedy for hip-disease, let one take
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.