שידה

שִׁידָּה, שִׁדָּהf. (b. h. (?); prob. fr. שָׁדַד = שָׂדַד to join) strong box, chest. Kel. XV. 1. Ib. XVIII, 1. Mikv. VI, 5. Y.Taan.II, 65b (ref. to Jon. 3:8) מה שהיה בכף … בש׳וכ׳ what robbery they had in their hands, they restored; what they had in the safe, chest, or closet they did not restore; a. e.Pl. שִׁידּוֹת, שִׁדִּים. Ib. IV, 69a bot. שמנים ש׳ שלוכ׳ eighty metal chests were in Shiḥin; but R. G. said, a shiddah did not exist in our days; Gitt.68a שלש מאות מיני שדים … ושידה עצמה איני יודע מה היא (not ושידת) there were three hundred kinds of shiddim (chests) in Shiḥin, but what a shiddah really is, I do not know; (comment. erroneously read שֵׁידָה, שֵׁדִים).V. next art.