הֲבַאי, הֲוַאי m. (הבי, הוי, cmp. הבל) [breath,] vanity, vain talk; impossibility, exaggeration, rhetorical phrase. Ned. III, 1 נדרי הב׳ vows made dependent on an impossibility, expl. ib. 2 קונם וכ׳ I may be forbidden …, if I have not seen &c. (a mere exaggeration not meant literally). Ib. 24ᵇ שבועות ה׳ oaths affirming &c. (Shebu. III, 8 שבועת שוא). Ḥull. 90ᵇ לשון הב׳ Ar. (ed. הו׳) exaggeration in rhetorical speech; Tam. 29ᵃ; a. e. V. גּוּזְמָא.
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הֲבַאי , הֲוַאי m. ( הבי , הוי , cmp. הבל ) [ breath ,] vanity, vain talk; impossibility, exaggeration, rhetorical phrase . Ned. III, 1 נדרי הב׳ vows…
References
- Jastrow, הוי 1
- Mishnah Nedarim 3:1
- Mishnah Nedarim 3:2
- Nedarim 24b:5
- Mishnah Shevuot 3:8
- Chullin 90b:13
- Tamid 29a:21
- Jastrow, גּוּזְמָא 1