Jastrow: חֵמֶת

חֵמֶת f. (b. h.) the skin of a goat drawn off the body without opening the belly and sewed up and pitched at the ends where the legs and the tail were cut off (v. Sm. Bible Dict. s. v. Bottle), bottle, bag. Kel. XIX, 8 הח׳ שבצים וכ׳ a bottle (of a skin of a he-goat) whose scrotum (originally made to receive liquids in connection with the bottle) became defective. Ib. XX, 2 חֵמַת חלילין bag of the bagpipe (ascaula). Ib. XXVIII, 5 ח׳ שעשאה שטיח a closed up pouched skin which (by cutting open) was made a spread skin. Sabb. 152ᵃ a woman is ח׳ מלא דם(!) a bag full of blood (v. vers. Ms. O. in Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 7). Tosef. Kel. B. Kam. VI, 13. Ib. VII, 11 הח׳ מעור הדג a bag made of the skin of a fish. Y. Ab. Zar. IV, end, 44ᵇ bot. בחֶמְתּוֹ (not מח׳) in his wine bottle; a. fr.—Pl. חֲמָתוֹת. Kel. XXVI, 4 (5) כל ח׳ Mish. ed. (Talm. ed. כלי, corr. acc.); Men. 37ᵇ. Ḥull. 107ᵇ בבלאי ח׳ with pieces of goat skins wrapt around their hands (like gloves).—Midr. Till. to Ps. CXXXVII חֵמוֹת.