- שַׁעַר
- שַׁעַרII m. (b. h.; שָׁעַר II) estimation, proportion.Pl. שְׁעָרִים. Gen. R. s. 64 (ref. to Gen. 26:12) כורים מאה כורים מאה ש׳ מאה מניינים מאה ש׳וכ׳ one hundred Kor; one hundred proportions, one hundred quantities; one hundred shʿarim, this shows that they had made an estimate of it (the crop of the field), and it brought a hundred times the estimated quantity; Yalk. ib. 111 (corr. acc.); Pirké dR. El. ch. XXXIII וכל דבר … מאה ש׳ של ממוןוכ׳ and for every thing that he gave tithes of, the Lord sent him one hundred times the value, and he blessed him.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.