Jastrow: הִרְהֵר

הִרְהֵר, הִירְ׳ (Pilp. of הרר; v. הָרָה, cmp. esp. Is. LIX, 13) 1) to conceive in mind, to think, meditate, plan. Ber. III, 4 מְהַרְהֵר בלבו thinks (recites the Sh’ma) in his heart, v. הִרְהוּר. Gitt. 57ᵇ הי׳ תשובה בדעתיה he conceived the idea of repentance. —2) to be heated, entertain impure thoughts. Ḥull. 37ᵇ לא הִרְהַרְתִּי ביום I allowed no impure thoughts to rise in me in day-time; a. fr. —3) (followed by אחר) to disparage, criticise, detract from. Snh. 110ᵃ המְהַרְהֵר אחר רבו who speaks evil of his teacher. Num. R. s. 7 אם הִרְהַרְתָּ וכ׳ if thou criticisest them &c. Ber. 19ᵃ אל תְּהַרְהֵר אחריו ביום do not think evil of him the day after (for he surely repented). Sifré Deut. 307 אין להַרְהֵר אחר מדותיו you must not criticise His dealings with man; a. fr. —4) to heat, make sick with fever. Lev. R. s. 17 (play on ח̇ר̇צבות, Ps. LXXIII, 4; v. ה"א) לא הִרְהַרְתִּים בחלאים (Var. חרחר׳; Ar. s. v. חרצב: ערער׳) I did not make them hot with diseases; Yalk. Ps. 808. [Ukts. III, 11, v. חרְחֵר.]