Jastrow: כֶּרֶם

כֶּרֶם m. (b. h.; preced.) [enclosure,] plantation, esp. vineyard. Ber. 35ᵃ, a. e. כ׳ זית איקרי כ׳ סתמא לא אקרי an orchard of olive trees is called kerem zayith, but not plain kerem. Ib. (ref. to Maas. Sh. V, 1 sq., a. fr.) חד תני כ׳ רבע … נטע רבעי one authority reads everywhere a kerem of the fourth year’s crop, the other nʾtʿa (plantation) &c. Lev. R. s. 32 (play on כְּרֻם, Ps. XII, 9) כַּרְמָן של ממזרים the plantation (genealogy, cmp. יִחוּס) of the bastards. Peah VII, 6. Kil. IV, 1, v. קָרַחַת; a. v. fr.—Trnsf. circle of scholars, college, esp. כ׳ ביבנה the college of R. Johanan b. Zaccai in Jamnia (v. יַבְנֶה). Keth. IV, 6; B. Bath. 131ᵇ; Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ top; a. fr.—[Ber. 63ᵇ כ׳ ביבנה for which Cant. R. to II, 5: אוּשָׁא.]—Pl. כְּרָמִים. Men. VIII, 6 (86ᵇ) כ׳ העבודים carefully cultivated vineyards (dug over twice a year); a. e.—בֵּית כֶּרֶם pr. n. pl. Beth-Kerem. Nidd. II, 7 בקעת ב׳ כ׳ the valley of Beth K. (whose soil was red); Tosef. ib. III, 11.