בְּזַק

בְּזַקch. sam(בזקto break, crush).Pa. בַּזֵּק to cast (or shoot) a mass of fragments (as from a catapult). Snh.108b ב׳ בהון עפראוכ׳ Ar. (ed. והוה שדינן) he shot at them with dust and it turned into swords B. Bath.73a והוה כי מבזק ארבעין גירוי דברזלא and there was a flash as if one shot forty arrows of iron (v. Koh. Ar. Compl. s. v. בזק, note 5).Ed. כי מבזר ארב׳ גריוי דתרדלא like one scattering forty measures of mustard (from a confusion of which two versions the variants in Mss. a. in Ar. arose, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note.Ar. כמיבזק Ithpe.. Ithpe., contr. אִיבְּזִיק to be broken. Yoma 22b how do you know that Bazek (1 Sam. 11:8, v. next w.) is here used לישנא דמיבזיק in the sense of being broken (a fragment of pottery); perhaps it is the name of a place? B. Bath.73a Ar., v. supra.