Jastrow: גְּדִי

גְּדִי m. (b. h.) 1) kid, in gen. young animal. Ḥull. 113ᵃ; 113ᵇ (ref. to Gen. XXXVIII, 17) כאן ג׳ עזים וכ׳ here it reads g’di izzim from which we learn that wherever g’di without any qualification is used, it includes cow and sheep. Men. XIII, 7; a. fr.—Pl. גְּדָיִם, גְּדָיִים. Snh. 11ᵃ; Tosef. ib. II, 4 מפני הג׳ וכ׳ on account of the kids or lambs (being too young for offerings on Passover).—Y. ib. X, 28ᵇ bot.; Gen. R. s. 42, a. e. אם אין ג׳ אין תישים when there will be no kids (young students), there will be no wethers (leaders, scholars). Y. ib. I, 19ᵃ top ג׳ שהנחת וכ׳ the kids (young scholars) thou hast left behind (in Palestine) have grown to be wethers; a. e.—Trnsf. the tender grain in its husks. Pesik. Asser p. 99ᵇ; Tanḥ. R’eh 17; Yalk. Deut. 892 (homiletic interpret. of Deut. XV, 21) אל תגרמו לי לבשל ג׳ וכ׳ do not cause me to ripen the grains in their mothers’ womb (husks, so as to be blown out by the East wind). —2) the Capricorn, a sign in the Zodiac. Pesik. R. s. 20. Yalk. Ex. 418; Kings 185. [Yalk. Num. 785 הרי נכנס הזאב לגדי, v. גדיגוד.]