- גוזמא
- גּוּזְמָאm. (גּזַם) a figure of speech, hyperbole. B. Mets. 104b ג׳ בעלמא הוא דקגזים he used only a hyperbolical expression (‘a thousand Zuz). Arakh.11a וסימנך מתניתא ג׳ and thy mnemotechnical sign (to remember who said a hundred and who a thousand) be: the Boraitha (or Mishnah) frequently uses hyperboles. Bets.4a; a. fr.V. הֲבַאי.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
