שעל

שֹׁעַלm. (b. h.) 1) hollow of the hand, palm, handful. Tanḥ. Bresh. 5 (ref. to Is. 40:12) מן שָׁעֳלוֹ אתה יודעוכ׳ by the size of his handful canst thou know who he himself is; ib. Ḥayé 3 וכל … בשעלו all the seas and rivers did he measure with his palm; ib. Emor 15 וכל … מלא שעלווכ׳ all the waters of the world fill the palm of the Lord; Pesik. Eth Korb., p. 57b> מלא שוֹעֳלוֹ; Tanḥ. Pinḥ. 12 מלא שָׁעֳלִי my handful; Num. R. s. 2117>; Pesik. R. addit. s. 1 כל … לתוך שעלי all the waters of creation did I compress into my palm.Pl. שָׁעֲלִים. Ib … גבור פחות מעשרה ש׳ a mighty man … drinks no less than ten haudfuls; a. e. 2) ש׳ של ים the hollow of the sea, depth. Cant. R. to II, 15 (ref. to Cant. l. c.; v. ed. Baer et Del. Notae criticae a. l.) קדמאה מלא … שירדו לשעלו של ים the first shu‘alim is written plene, the second defective, which may be read שָׁעֳלִים; they (the Egyptians) were the foxes that went down to the bottom of the sea; Ex. R. s. 22 על שם שעלו של ים an allusion to the bottom of the sea; Yalk. Ps. 786 שעלים) (read: שעל ים).