- תְּקֵן
- תְּקֵןch. sam(תקןto make straight, firm, right), to be firm, stand (corresp. to b. h. כּוּן, כָּנַן). Targ. Ps. 90:17 יִתְקְנַן ed. Ven. (Ms. יְתַקְנַן; ed. Wil. יִתּקְּנוּן Ithpa.). Targ. Prov. 22:18 נִיתְקְנִין (ed. Wil. נִתּקְּנוּן Ithpa.). Pa. תַּקֵּין 1) to establish. Targ. Ps. 9:8. Ib. 74:16 Ms. (ed. Af.). Targ. Is. 62:7. Targ. 2 Sam. 7:12; a. fr.Part. pass. מְתַקַּן. Targ. Jdg. 16:26 (not … קֵן). Targ. Ps. 89:38 (ed. Lag. מִיתַּקַּן Ithpa.); a. e. 2) to prepare, arrange, set in order; to improve, do a thing properly. Targ. Is. 40:13 (h. text תכן). Targ. O. Ex. 16:5. Targ. Prov. 6:8. Targ. Ps. 11:2; a. e.Targ. O. Deut. 12:5, read with ed. Berl. יִתָּקַן.Part. pass. as ab. Targ. Ez. 16:13 (not … קֵן). Ib. 18:12; a. fr.Keth.112a bot. מְתַקֵּן מתקליה repaired its offences (dangerous places on the road to Palestine); Yalk. Ps. 855. Tam.27b תַּקֵּין נפשך put thyself in order (regulate thy bowels). Sabb.33b איזיל אֲתַקֵּין מילתא I will go and remedy something (do something to benefit the community). Ib. איכא מילתא דבעי לתַקּוּנֵי is there anything that requires to be remedied? Zeb.15a אפשר לתַקּוּנָהּ it can be remedied. Ib. 76b תַּקּוּנֵי גברא שאני when a person is to be made fit (restored from a disqualification), we make an exception; Men.105b. Keth.85a, a fr. לתקוני שדרתיך, v. עֲוַת; a. fr.Esp. to make fit for use by separating the priestly gifts. Gen. R. s. 60 תַּקְּנַת איליןוכ׳ hast thou tithed those figs? Ib. תַּקַּנְתּוּהוּ have you tithed it (the barley)?; a. fr.Part. pass. as ab. Ib. אפשר … דלא מְתַקְּנַן is it possible that R. Z. should have eaten of them when they were not tithed?; a. fr. 3) to introduce, ordain, innovate, reform. Ber.33b אי לאו … ותַקְּנִינְהוּ בתפלהוכ׳ were it not that Moses had said them (the words, ‘O God, great, mighty and terrible), and the men of the Great Assembly had come and introduced them in the prayers, we could not dare to say them. Ib. תמני סרי תַּקּוּןוכ׳ eighteen benedictions they have ordained, nineteen they have not. Ib. 40b ברכה דלא תַקִּינוּ רבנן a benediction which the Rabbis have not introduced. B. Bath.90b רב פפא … ת׳ כיילאוכ׳ Rab Papa … introduced a measure of three Ḳfizas. Ib. אנא … תַּקִּינִי I have introduced a new measure; a. v. fr. Af. אַתְקֵין 1) to establish. Targ. Prov. 3:19. Targ. Is. 30:33; a. e. 2) to prepare, arrange, set in order (V. Pa.). Targ. Num. 10:33. Targ. Gen. 43:16. Targ. Ex. 30:7; a. fr. 3) to introduce, ordain, innovate, reform. R. Hash. 34a איתקיןר׳ אבהווכ׳ (read: אַתְ׳; Ms. M. הִתְקִין Hebr.) R. A. introduced the custom in Cæsaræa of sounding one Tḳiʿah, three notes of Shbarim, and one Tḳiʿah. Ib. מאי א׳ what has he improved (what has he achieved with his ordinance)? Gitt.86a א׳ רב יהודהוכ׳ Rab Judah introduced the formula for the sale of slaves: ‘this slave Y.Hag. I, 76c ר׳ יודה … למַתְקְנָא לוןוכ׳ (or למְתַקְּנָא, Pa.) R. Judah the Nasi sent out R. H …, that they should pass the towns … to institute teachers of Bible and of Mishnah for them; Midr. Till. to Ps. 127; Lam. R. introd., beg. דיפקון ויַתְקְנוּן קרייתאוכ׳ (or ויתַקְּנוּן) that they should go and improve (the education of) the towns in Palestine; a. fr. Ithpa. אִתַּקֵּין, אִיתַּקַּן; Ithpe. אִיתְּקֵין, אִיתְ׳ 1) to be established, confirmed; to be prepared, arranged. Targ. 1 Kings 2:46. Targ. Prov. 12:19. Ib. 19:29 (ed. Wil. מְתַ׳, part. pass. Pa.); a. fr. 2) to be prepared, dressed; to dress, adorn ones self. Targ. Hos. 2:15. Targ. II Esth. 5:1; a. fr. 3) to be instituted, ordained. B. Kam.82a עזרא תיקן … מִיתַּקְּנָא Ezra introduced this? was it not introduced before that (by Moses)?; a. e.
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