אמורא

אֲמֹורָאm. (אמר) 1) speaker, lecturer, interpreter; esp. Amora, one who, in lengthy popular discourses, expounds what the lecturer (Tanna, v. תַּנָּא) says before him in brief and in a low voice; often called מְתוּרְגְּמָן. Ex. R. s. 8, end כשם שהדורש … יהא׳וכ׳ as the lecturer sits … and the Amora speaks in his presence.Snh.7b קום עליה בא׳ stand by him as an expounder. Taan.8a, a. fr. אוקים … א׳ עליה ודרש S. … placed an Amora by his side and lectured. Sot.40a ואמר אֲמֹורֵיה חד טעמא and his Amora gave a different reason. Ḥull.15a do people listen to the Tanna? לא׳ צייתי they listen to the Amora. 2) in a particular sense אֲמֹורָא, Amora (Amoraïm), that class of Talmudic authorities who lived after the final redaction of the Mishnah, and whose discussions on the opinions of the Tannaïm or authors of the Mishnah and Boraitha, are deposited in the Guemara, thus adding a second element to the development of the oral law, called Talmud.Pl. אֲמֹורִין. Y.Ber.I, 2c top, a. e. תרי א׳ two Amoraïm differ. for which Babli usually: … אֲמֹורָאֵי נינהו ואליבא two Amoras differ in their relation (or conception) of the opinion of … Shebu.40b; a. fr.