- הַשְׁכָּמָה
- הַשְׁכָּמָהf. (שכם, Hif.) 1) early rising, early morning hour. Sabb.86a בה׳ עלה he went up early in the morning. Sifra Kdosh. ch. 3, Par. 2 צא בה׳ start early.Sabb.127a הַשְׁכָּמַתבה״מ coming in good time to college; a. fr.Trnsf. eagerness. Y.Shek.I, 45d bot., v. הַשְׁחָתָה. 2) going to labor in the morning. Y.B. Mets.VII, beg.11b שתהא השלמה (corr. acc.), v. הַעֲרָבָה.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.