Jastrow: כְּדִי I

כְּדִי I, (כַּדִּי, כְּדֵי) (= כַּד הִי, v. כְּדוּ) when; now (that). Targ. Y. Gen. XXVII, 34. Ib. XXXIX, 10; a. e.—Y. Ab. Zar. II, 40ᵈ top כ׳ טבא when it (the eye-paint) is good. Y. Dem. VI, 25ᶜ bot. כ׳ יהב ליה כ׳ when he gives him the whole of it. Y. Meg. III, 74ᵇ bot. כ׳ דהוינן, v. כַּד I.—2) [as it is,] incidentatly, without special reason, not meaning it exactly. R. Hash. 5ᵃ פסח כ׳ נסבה the writer uses the word Pesaḥ (ib. 4ᵃ, quot. fr. Tosef. Arakh. III, 17) incidentally (cmp. אַשְׁגָּרָה); Zeb. 99ᵇ. Kidd. 5ᵇ סיפא כ׳ נסבה the second proposition was incidentally asserted (is not to be pressed), opp. דַּוְקָא.—3.) as such, alone, merely. Keth. 36ᵇ bot. מעיד בה כ׳ if he merely testifies in her favor (without having been instrumental in redeeming her from captivity). Gitt. 55ᵃ יאוש כ׳ וכ׳ the mere giving up of robbed property (without a change of hands after the renunciation) gives the robber no rights. מילי דכ׳־ words spoken merely for saying something, for fun. Snh. 29ᵇ כל מילי דכ׳ וכ׳ people do not remember words thrown out in a jocular way.—[Bekh. 8ᵇ מילי דכ׳ Ar. fictions, stories; v. כַּדְבָא).—בִּכְ׳ for whatever it be, for a trifle; for no cause. Yeb. 39ᵇ בכ׳ תיפוק can she be dismissed without any formality (with his mere refusal to marry her)?—Taan. 5ᵇ, v. בְּכָא. Keth. l. c. לא שדי … בכ׳ one does not throw away one’s money at random (unless sure that there is no legal impediment to marrying the woman whom he is about to redeem). Ned. 22ᵃ בכ׳ לא אדרתה for a paltry reason she would surely not have forbidden her, v. נְדַר. Ib. 29ᵃ פקעה בכ׳ ceases without any formality; a. e.—מִכְּ׳ from such (a condition) as it is, now, well, you know. Gitt. 68ᵇ מ׳ כי מיית וכ׳ now when you die, you will have &c. Sabb. 78ᵃ מ׳ כל מילתא וכ׳ you know, whenever there is an ordinary and an extraordinary way of using an object, &c. Ḥull. 109ᵇ; a. e.—Esp. (introducing an argument) now, is it not so? Ib. 29ᵃ מ׳ על עיף קאי וכ׳ does not the writer of the Mishnah treat of birds? Well then, if he meant sacrificial fowls he ought to have said hammolek! B. Kam. 3ᵃ מ׳ שקולין וכ׳ now that they are alike, let both be included, for which will you exclude?—Bets. 2ᵇ מ׳ מאן סתמה וכ׳ now, who is it that states that proposition in the Mishnah anonymously? Of course, Rabbi. Now, why &c.; a. fr.