- תִּירְ׳
- תִּרְגֵּם, תִּירְ׳(late b. h.; רגם to speak aloud, Assyr.) to deliver, proclaim (V. Ezra 4:7). Lev. R. s. 9 (ref. to Prov. 14:9 יליץ) הטיפש הזה מְתַרְגֵּם חובתו בפיווכ׳ that fool proclaims his guilt with his own mouth and says, am I not bound to bring a sin-offering ?Esp. a) to explain, interpret, act as an Amora (v. אֲמוֹרָא); b) (at public service) to translate orally (in Aramaic) what has been read from the Scriptures in the original. Y.Bicc.III, 65d top תי׳ר׳וכ׳ R. Jacob … (having to act as an Amora to an ignorant teacher) interpreted (the verse Hab. 2:19) Y.Succ.V, 55b bot. מהו מפקיעין תי׳ר׳ … מפשילים what is mafḳiʿin? R. H. (as Amora) before R. J. explained it by the word mafshilim (v. פָּשַׁל). B. Bath.88a אני וארי תִּרְגֵּימְנוּהָ (prob. to be read: תִּירְגַּמְ׳) I and the lion in our company (a great scholar) have explained it; (Snh.8b; Sabb.111b תַּרְגְּימְנָא, תַּרְגִּימְנָהּ Chald.). Ib. 53a ישר וכן תִּרְגְּמָהּוכ׳ it is right, and so did Aryokh (Samuel) teach it (as Amora) in Babylonia. Kidd.49a; Tosef.Meg.IV (III), 41 המְתַרְגַּםוכ׳, v. צוּרָה. Meg.IV, 6 קטן … ומתרגם a minor may read from the Law and translate; a. fr. Hithpa. הִיתַּרְגֵּם, הִתַּ׳ to be translated, interpreted. Ib. 10 מִיתַּרְגֵּם, מִיתַּרְגְּמִין; Tosef. ib. IV (III), 31 מִתַּ׳, v. קָרָא; a. e.
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