תיבה

תֵּבָה, תֵּיבָה(b. h. תֵּבָה; Egyptian; v., however, תָּבָא) 1) ship, ark, chest. Gen. R. s. 31 (play on קנים, Gen. 6:14) מה הקן … אף תֵּיבָתְךָוכ׳ as birds (v. קֵן) make the leper clean, so does thy ark cleanse thee. Ib. על שם תֵּיבָתוֹ של נח (it is called tbiḳin) from the measures of Noahs ark. Y.Erub.V, 22c bot. כיצד היו ישראל … כת׳ how did the Israelites march in the desert?… like a chest (forming a square), opp. כקורה like a beam (in columns). Men.94b כמין ת׳ פרוצה (the shape of the show-bread was) that of an open chest (without a lid and with a level bottom), opp. כמין ספינה רוקדת like a rocking ship (with a curved bottom). Sifra Mtsorʿa, Zab., Par. 1, ch. II תֵּיבַת הבלנים the bathers chest. Tosef.Kel.B. Mets.X, 1, sq.; a. fr.Pl. תֵּבוֹת, תֵּי׳ Midr. Till. to Ps. 1 היה צריך לעשות ת׳ הרבה he would have been obliged to build many arks. Y.Sot.VIII, beg.22b שהיו עשויין ת׳ ת׳ they (the Egyptians) were arrayed in squares.Esp. the chest in the synagogue containing the scrolls of the Pentateuch. Sot.38b, v. פְּסַק. Taan.II, 1 מוציאין את הת׳וכ׳ (at prayer meetings) they bring the chest out to the open place of the town, and put ashes of wood on the chest Meg.III, 1 בני העיר … בה״כ לוקחין ת׳ ת׳וכ׳ if the citizens of a township sell … a synagogue, they may buy (for the money) a book chest; if they sell a chest, they may buy book wrappers; a. fr.עבר לפני הת׳, ירד לפני הת׳ to go before the chest, to act as reader of prayers. Ber.34a שירד לפני הת׳וכ׳ who recited the prayers in the presence of Ib. V, 3 העובר לפני הת׳ וטעהוכ׳ if a reader makes a mistake (reads heretical formulas), another person must pass before the chest in his place. Ib. 4. Ib. 34a העובר לפני הת׳ צריך לסרב he that is asked to read the prayers , v. מָרַב. Taan.II, 2 מורידין לפני הת׳וכ׳ we depute as reader (on fast days) an old man ; a. v. fr. 2) word. Men.30b ת׳ בת שתיוכ׳ a word of two letters. Sabb.104a they did not know הי באמצע ת׳וכ׳ in which (of the two forms of the letters מנצפ״ך) were to be employed in the middle of a word, and which at the end; a. fr.Pl. תֵּיבוֹת, תֵּיבִיּוֹת. Ḥull.64b דפסק … ת׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40) where the scribe divides them into two words; ib. 65a. Y.Meg.I, 71c bot. תיביות; a. e.