Jastrow: חֲבֵרוּת

חֲבֵרוּת, חֲבֵי׳ f. (חָבֵר) 1) the condition of a Ḥaber with reference to levitical pureness; the Order of Ḥăberim. Bekh. 30ᵇ הבא לקבל דברי ח׳ he who comes before scholars to take upon himself the obligations of a ḥaber. Tosef. Dem. III, 4 דוחין אותו מחֲבירוּתוֹ ed. Zuck. (Var. מחבורתו) is expelled from the order; Y. ib. II, 23ᵃ top מחבור׳ (cor. acc); a. fr. —2) the position of a scholar, ‘fellowship’. Y. Ber. V, 9ᵃ bot. אפי׳ תואר ח׳ וכ׳ even the appellation of fellowship (if you had called us ḥăberim) would not have been unbecoming to us.