שוּק

שוּקIII m. (b. h.; v. שוּק I) (meeting place, market, street. Gen. R. s. 91 ש׳ של זונות the place where harlots meet. Pes.110a בזמן שלא ראה פני הש׳ if he has not seen the open. i. e. if he has not been in the open air between one cup and the other. B. Kam. 115a תקנת הש׳ the market ordinance (that he who buys a stolen object publicly has a right to his purchasing money on restoring the object). Yeb.53a התרת יבמה לש׳ making a ybamah permitted to all the world, i. e. freeing a woman from her dependence on her brother-in-law. Ib. 98b פגע ביבמה לש׳ he might (on marrying her) strike on a ‘ybamah abroad, i. e. on one bound to another man as her yabam; a. v. fr.Num. R. S. 2018>, a. e. בעל הש׳ market commissioner.Pl. שְׁוָוקִים, שְׁוָוקִין, שְׁוָקִ׳. Ib. 17> (expl. קרית הצות, Num. 22:39) שעשה ש׳ שלוכ׳ he arranged commercial markets. Sabb.33b תקנו ש׳וכ׳ they (the Romans in Palestine) made markets to place harlots there; Ab. Zar.2b. Tosef.Makhsh.III, 8 הבאין מבית הש׳ that are brought back from the market houses; a. fr.Constr. שוּקֵי. Erub.29a, a. e. הריני … בש׳ טבריא I am (to-day) as bright as Ben ʿAzzai was in the meeting places of Tiberias; a. fr.