Jastrow: גּוּף II

גּוּף II m. (b. h. גּוּפָה, גַּף, cmp. גְּוִיָּה, גֵּוּ) 1) body, person, self. Kidd. 20ᵃ (expl. b’gappo Ex. XXI, 3) בגוּפוֹ נכנס וכ׳ of himself he entered, of himself he shall go out (free, in the seventh year) but not, like a gentile slave, on losing a limb. Snh. 91ᵃ ג׳ ונשמה וכ׳ the body and the soul may try to escape judgment (shifting the responsibility one on the other). Kidd. 37ᵃ, a. fr. חובת הג׳ personal duty, contrad. to ה׳ קרקע laws connected with the (Palestinean) soil. Y. Taan. I, 64ᵈ top, a. e. אותו הג׳ הקדוש that holy body (saint). R. Hash. 17ᵃ בגוּפָן by defiling their bodies. Ab. IV, 6 גּוּפוֹ מכובד וכ׳ will himself be honored by men.—Trnsf. Guf, the fictitious storehouse of souls in heaven. Yeb. 62ᵃ, a. e. the son of David shall not come עד שיכלו … שֶׁבַּגּ׳ before all souls in the Guf are exhausted (i.e. sent to live on earth). —2) essence, substance. Y. Ber. I, 3ᶜ גּוּפָהּ של שמע an integral portion of the Sh’ma (confession of faith). Y. Sabb. II, 5ᵃ top גופה של פתילה the wick itself. Gitt. IX, 3 גּוּפוֹ של גט וכ׳ the essential formula of a letter of divorce is &c. Yoma 74ᵇ גופו של מעשה the deed (of sexual gratification) itself; a. fr.—Pes. 112ᵇ מצוה וגוף גדול עושה פירות ולו שכר (Ar. a. Ms. M. 2 a. O., ed. ולא) a charity and at the same time a good investment is the act of him who helps to produce fruits, while he has the reward (e.g. one who loans money to a husbandman on security, allowing payment in small instalments); מצוה וג׳ טהור וכ׳ a religious act by which one preserves his body pure does he perform who marries a wife &c.—Pl. גּוּפִין, constr. גּוּפֵי. Gen. R. s. 31.—Y. Sabb. II, 5ᵇ bot. ג׳ הלכות; Tosef. ib. II, 10 ג׳ תורה essential parts of the Law; Ab. III, 18; Ḥag. I, 8 (10ᵃ); 11ᵇ —3) membrum. Lev. R. s. 25, end. —4) surface, color (cmp. גַּוָּון). Men. 44ᵃ top גופו דומה וכ׳ its color resembles that of the Sea, contrad. to ברייה shape; Mass. Tsitsith ed. Kirchheim p. 23.