- שָׁחָץ
- שָׁחָץm. (preced.) aristocratic, proud, vainglorious, pompous. Pesik. Par., p. 40a> אית לך למימר … שהיה ש׳ will you say of that righteous man (Simeon the high priest) that he was vainglorious?; Y.Shek.IV, 48a bot. שִׁיהֵץ היה.Pl. שְׁחָצִים. Pesik. l. c. וכולם ש׳ היו and all of them (those high priests that made such a display) were ostentatious people, v. שַׁחֲצִית. Lev. R. s. 20 ש׳ היו they (Nadab and Abihu) were aristocratic (deeming no woman noble enough for them); Midr. Till. to Ps. 78:63 שַׁחֲצָנִין (ed. Bub. שקרנין, corr. acc.); Yalk. ib. 822 שְׁחָצִין.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.