כִּילּוּיָא ch. same , destruction.—*כּילּוּי סִילְוֵי (or סִילְיֵי) destruction of thistles, name of an insect, prob. caterpillar (or bruchus (?), v. Sm. Ant. s. v.). Gen. R. s. 51, beg. (expl. שבלול, Ps. LVIII, 9) [read:] כהדין כ׳ סיליי כשלשול וכ׳ [לימצא is a gloss borrowed from a comment. to Ps. l. c. and absent in Yalk. Ps. 776] like the caterpillar, like the abdominal secretion &c. Y. Shek. VI, 50ᵃ top כקרני סיליי וכיליי (Bab. ed. to VI, 2 Ms. M. סילוי וכילוי, early ed. only ס׳) the water coming forth from the Temple (Zech. XIV, 8) will be … as minute as the horns (feelers) of the caterpillar (thinner than those of חגבים).
כִּילּוּיָא
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כִּילּוּיָא ch. same , destruction .—* כּילּוּי סִילְוֵי (or סִילְיֵי ) destruction of thistles , name of an insect, prob. caterpillar (or bruchus…
References
- Jastrow, כִּילּוּי 1
- Jastrow, סִילֵי 1
- Bereishit Rabbah 51
- Jastrow, שַׁבְּלוּל 1
- Psalms 58:9
- Jastrow, *לימצא 1
- Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 776
- Jerusalem Talmud Shekalim 6:2:3
- Jastrow, ס׳ 1
- Zechariah 14:8