
Talmudic definition of specific biblical words
LinksSpecific Words
"Ach (only)": Eruvin 105a; Pesachim 5a; Rosh HaShanah 17b; Yoma 85b; Succah 48a; Bava Kama 11b; Temurah 25a; Keritot 7a
"Achal" [regarding consumption by humans, animals and fires]: Zevachim 31a
"Achashteranim, Benei haRamachim": Megillah 18a
"Acher" [as in "Another Man"] meaning the brother-in-law or not: Kiddushin 13b
"Ad (until)" as inclusive or exclusive [Some of these cases do not refer to biblical use of "Ad"]: Eruvin 82b; Pesachim 117b, Rosh HaShanah 30b, Succah 41b, Menachot 68b
"Ad Hayom Hazeh {Until This Day)": Yoma 54a
"Adam": Keritot 6b
"Afik": Eruvin 65a; Taanit 8b
"Aidah (Group)" without adjectives, refers to the Jews: Rashbam Pesachim 118b "UKenaih"
"Al (On)" meaning On, or Nearby: Pesachim 63b
"Al (Don't)": Eruvin 96a; Sotah 5a; Makkot 13b
"Alil (Revealed)": Rosh HaShanah 21b
"Anochi (I)": Shabbat 105a
"Asher": Makkot 8a
"Atzeh": Rashi Zevachim 9a "l'elyah"
"Av Hamon Goyim (Father of Many Nations)": Shabbat 105a
"Aytan": Rosh HaShanah 11a
"Bahat": Megillah 12a
"Bahd (Bud)": Bava Metzia 24a; Zevachim 18b
"Banim" or "Bnei" as including men, specifically: Kiddushin 35b-36a; Zevachim 15b
"Bazak": Rashi Eruvin 104a "Bozkin"
"Beged": Menachot 39b
"Bein ha'Arbayim": Zevachim 11b
"Bikoret": Keritot 11a
"Bnei Yisrael" as including those born of Jewish parents, specifically: Keritot 7b
"Chag (Holiday)": Rosh HaShanah 6b
"Chalitzah (Removal)": Yevamot 102b
"Charufah": Keritot 11a
"Chok": Yoma 67b; Kiddushin 37a
"Chur": Megillah 12a
"Dal": Nedarim 40a
"Dar": Megillah 12a
"Derech": Kiddushin 2b
"Deror (Free, Nomadic): Rosh HaShanah 9b
"Diber": Makkot 10b-11a
"Edah": Sanhedrin 2a
"Elo'ah": Nedarim 25a
"Erev": Rashi Zevachim 11b "bein shnei aravim"
"Et (the)": Pesachim 22b
"Galmudah": Rosh HaShanah 26a
Analysis of an extra letter "Hay" in "HaDevarim": Berachot 13a
"Haavarah": Rosh HaShanah 34a
"Haflaah (Explication)" is Torah: Shabbat 138b
"Haflaah" is flogging: Makkot 13b; Temurah 3b
"Hasech Nesech": Taanit 3a
"Hashchatah": Temurah 28b
"HaYikba": Rosh HaShanah 26b
"Hen (One)": Moed Katan 28a
"Hishamer (Beware)": Eruvin 96a; Yoma 81a; Sotah 5a; Makkot 13b
"Hu": Megillah 11a
"Kachah (Thusly)": Kiddushin 14a
"Kariti": Rosh HaShanah 26a
"Karmel (Soft and Ripe)": Shabbat 105a, Menachot 66b
"Karpas": Megillah 12a
"Katav": Megillah 19a
"Keren (Horn)": Rosh HaShanah 26a
"Keruv (Cherub)": Succah 5b
"Kesitah": Rosh HaShanah 26a
"Ketoret": Keritot 6b
"Ki": Rosh HaShanah 3a; Taanit 9a; Pesachim 93b
"Kichah/Kach": Kiddushin 4b
"Kinei/Kinuy": Sotah 2b-3a
"Lait Kah" as one word or two: Pesachim 117a
"Laimor (To Say)": Berachot 18b; Pesachim 42a; Temurah 7b
"LaShem (To HaShem)": Yoma 63b
"Mach": Megillah 11a
"Malkosh": Taanit 6a
"Man": Succah 39b
"Mashzar (Woven)": Yoma 71b
"Matza (find)": Makkot 8a
"Metata": Rosh HaShanah 26b; Megillah 18a
"Migadef": Keritot 7b
"Mikareh": Megillah 11a
"Mikdash": Eruvin 2a-b
"Mishkan": Eruvin 2a-b
"Mishpat" vs. "Chok" Types of Laws: Yoma 67b; Kiddushin 37a
"Moshav": Kiddushin 37a, 37b-38a
"Na (Please/Now)": Berachot 9a; Sotah 10b
"Netzach": Eruvin 54a
"Nimretzet": Shabbat 105a
"Nitalsah": Menachot 66b
"Nitztadak (Justify)": Shabbat 105a
"Nof": Rosh HaShanah 26a
"Oveir": Pesachim 7b, 119b; Succah 39a; Megillah 21b; Sotah 3a
"Paga": Taanit 7b, 8a; Sotah 14a
"Pen": Eruvin 96a; Sotah 5a; Makkot 13b
"Perech/Perach": Sotah 11a-b
"Peta": Keritot 9a
"Pinay (The Face Of)": Yoma 55a
"Pitgam": Megillah 9a
"Pitom": Keritot 9a
"Rak (Only)": Rosh HaShanah 17b
"Rishon (First)" refers to the item Before the First: Pesachim 5a
"Salselah": Rosh HaShanah 26b; Megillah 18a
"Sapachat": Sotah 5b
"Se'eit": Sotah 5b
"Sechvi": Rosh HaShanah 26a
"Selah": Eruvin 54a
"Shabbat" as Shabbat rather than Yom Tov: Beitzah 12a
"Shechar": Succah 49b
"Shegel": Rosh HaShanah 4a
"Shesh" and "Bahd": Yoma 71b
"Shofar": Rosh HaShanah 26a
"Siayt (Good)": Pesachim 36b
"Tachan": Sotah 10a
"Tachat": Temurah 26b-27a
"Tiharo [of mizbeiach]": Yoma 59a; Zevachim 38a-b
"Tishmirun": Kiddushin 37a
"Tochal"/"Tochaylu"/"Yai'achel" (Conjugations of "Eat"): Pesachim 21b-24b
"Torah": Kiddushin 2b
"Torat": Rashi Keritot 9b "kol heicha"
"Totafot": Sanhedrin 4b
"Tufinei": Menachot 50b
"Tzav": Kiddushin 29a
"Tzitzit": Menachot 41b, 42a
"Tziyyun/Tziyyon": Eruvin 54b
"Vaed": Eruvin 54a
"VaYaged (And He Spoke)": Shabbat 87a
"VaYehi / Vayehi Beemay": Megillah 10b
"VaYisa'em (And he raised the fires)": Rosh HaShanah 22b
"Vayyita": Sotah 10a
"Vayyitzer: Eruvin 18a
"VaYiven (And he Understood/Built)": Shabbat 95a; Eruvin 18a
Letter "Vav" adds on to what had been discussed prior to it [vav mosif al inyan rishon]: Pesachim 5a; Keritot 22b; Zevachim 48a
"v'Yareita meiElokecha": Bava Metzia 58b
"Yad": Bava Metzia 56b
"Yarat": Shabbat 105a, Menachot 66b
"Yashav": Megillah 21a
"Yegar Sahadusa (The Pile of Testimony)": Shabbat 115b; Megillah 9a
"Yehav": Rosh HaShanah 26b; Megillah 18a
"Yekar": Megillah 9a
"Yoreh": Taanit 6a
"Yovel": Rosh HaShanah 26a
"Zadu": Sotah 11a
"Zaken": Kiddushin 32b
"Zecher": Megillah 18a
"Zeh (This): Taanit 31a
"Zevul": Rosh HaShanah 17a