בְּזַק ch. same. —Pa. בַּזֵּק to cast (or shoot) a mass of fragments (as from a catapult). Snh. 108ᵇ ב׳ בהון עפרא וכ׳ Ar. (ed. והוה שדינן) he shot at them with dust and it turned into swords &c. *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 דחרדלא 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. - אִיבְּזִיק to be broken. Yoma 22ᵇ how do you know that Bazek (I Sam. XI, 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.