- שַׁתָּא
- שַׁתָּאf. (= שנתא) = h. שָׁנָה, year. Targ. Gen. 26:12. Targ. Ps. 144:13 (h. text זן); a. v. fr.Ab. Zar.34a, a. fr. תריסר ירחי ש׳ twelve months of the year, a regular year. Snh.18b ועברוה … לההיא ש׳ and the Rabbis declared that year a leap-year. Lev. R. s. 34 בלילי ריש ש׳ in the night of the New Year. Ib. בסיפא דש׳ at the end of the year; a. v. fr.Pl. שְׁנָתָא, v. שְׁנָא II.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
