Jastrow: כְּלוּם

כְּלוּם m. (= כל מ, cmp. מְאוּם) 1) anything, something, somebody (Lat. ullus). Targ. Koh. I, 9 לית כ׳ (h. text אין כל).—Yalk. Num. 730 (ref. to Num. X, 35) מפניך … ואין אנו כ׳ לפניהם before thee they flee, and are we nothing before them? אלא כשפניך אתנו אנו כ׳ לפניהם וכשאין פניך אתנו אין אנו כ׳ לפניהם but (it means) when thy countenance is with us we are something before them &c.; Sifré Num. 84 (corr. acc.).—Kel. XXIV, 1 טהורה מכ׳ is clean from any (of the aforementioned impurities). Ber. 22ᵇ, a. fr. פטור מכ׳ is entirely exempt. Ned. I, 1, a. fr. לא אמר כ׳ he has said nothing, i.e. what he said is void.—לא כ׳ not the least, nothing at all. Erub. 11ᵃ לא עשה ולא כ׳ (Rashi לא עשה כ׳) he has done nothing at all, i.e. what he has done has no legal consequences. Ib.ᵇ הכל מודין … לא כ׳ היא Ms. M. all agree that if …, there is nothing at all (to consider; ed. ולא כ׳ = פטורה ולא כ׳ it is exempt, and there is nothing &c.); Yoma 11ᵇ ולא כ׳ (ולאו) היא (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. Ms. M. and note).—Koh. R. to IX, 10 מאן הוא דכ׳ ודבר בגרמיה כ׳ וכ׳ if a person is somebody and comports himself as somebody (is proud of his value), it were better he had not been born; a. fr. —2) (interrog.) introducing a question to which a negative answer is expected, is there any? has any? &c. Snh. 105ᵃ כ׳ יש לזה על זה כ׳ has the one still any claim on the other? Sabb. 31ᵃ כ׳ מעמידין וכ׳ is there ever a king appointed except &c.? Ned. VIII, 7 כ׳ אמרת וכ׳ wouldst thou have said it, but for thy wish to honor me?; a. fr.—[Tosef. Men. XIII, 19; Tosef. B. Kam. VII, 8, v. דֶּלֶם.]