תָּקַע

תָּקַע(b. h.; cmp. תָּקַל) (to bring into contact, knock, insert, 1) to drive a peg in, put up a tent; to fasten. Yalk. Cant. 981 הלואי יִתְקַע תורתי בלבנווכ׳ Oh that he would drive his law into our heart as in former days. Ex. R. s. 117> Caleb is named Tekoa (1 Chr. 2:24), שת׳ לבו לאביווכ׳ because he fastened his heart on his father in heaven. Yeb.109b תּוֹקֵעַ עצמו לדבר הלכה he who nails himself to the matter of the law, i. e. confines himself to study, and is remiss in practical conduct; ואיבעית אימא תוקע … בדיינאוכ׳ or I may explain, ‘he who nails himself to the matter of the law refers to a judge before whom a case comes, and he having learned a certain hălakhah decides by analogy, while there is a greater scholar than he whom he fails to consult; a. e.Part. pass. תָּקוּעַ lodged, placed. B. Mets.85b אצל מי אתה ת׳ next to whom art thou placed (in heaven)? Y.Sot.IX, 23c והסכין ת׳ בלבו with the knife sticking in his heart; a. e. 2) (cmp. רָעַע) to shout, esp. to blow (a horn). B. Kam.18b תרנגול … ות׳ בו ושברו if a cock put his head into a glass vessel and crowed into it, and broke it; Kidd.24b. Ib. ת׳ באזנווכ׳ if one blew on a horn into a persons ear, and made him deaf; a. e.Esp. a) to blow the Shofar at services; b) to sound the plain note (תְּקִיעָה). R. Hash. III, 5 בר״ה תּוֹקְעִין בשל זכרים on New Years day they blow on a rams horn. Ib. 7 התוקע לתוך הבורוכ׳ if one blows (the Shofar) into a pit Ib. IV, 1 יום טוב … תוקעיםוכ׳ when New Year fell on a Sabbath, they blew in the Temple, but not in the country. Ib. 8 אין מעכבין … מלִתְקוֹעַ we do not prevent children from blowing the Shofar (on the Sabbath). Ib. 9 תוקע ומריע ותוקע, v. רוּעַ I. Taan.II, 5 תִּקְעיּ הכהנים תָּקְעוּוכ׳ (the reader said,) sound the Tḳiʿah, you priests, and they did so, (upon which he said,) He who has answered ; a. v. fr.( 3) to slap with the back of the hand. B. Kam.VIII, 6 (90a) התוקע לחבירו he who slaps his neighbor on the ear; oth. opin. who shouts into his neighbors ear. Hif. הִתְקִיעַ to cause to blow. R. Hash. IV, 7 השני מַתְקִיעַ the second reader orders the blowing of the Shofar. Nif. נִתְקַע 1) to be driven in, be inserted. Yeb.54a ונ׳ and his membrum was inserted. 2) to be lodged. Taan.24a אוי לו לדורשנ׳ בכך Ms. M. (ed. שכן נ׳) woe to the generation that is placed in such a (bad) position.