Jastrow: כֶּרֶס

כֶּרֶס f. (b. h. כֶּרֶשׂ in כְּרֵשׂוֹ; cmp. כַּרְכְּשָׁא) [bag,] stomach, belly. Taan. 26ᵃ top על נפש … וכ׳ מלאה when the appetite is satisfied and the stomach filled. Sabb. 151ᵇ (ref. to Koh. XII, 6) זה הכ׳ ‘the pitcher is broken’, that means the stomach. Ib. לאחר שלשה … כְּרֵיסוֹ נבקעת וכ׳ three days after burial one’s stomach bursts open … saying (to the mouth), Take what thou hast put into me; Koh. R. to l. c.; Y. Yeb. XVI, 15ᶜ bot.; Gen. R. s. 100. Keth. 16ᵃ, a. fr. כְּרֵיסָהּ בין שיניה her belly extends to her teeth, i.e. she cannot deny her pregnancy. Koh. R. to VII, 8 [read:] היה מפעפע בכְרֵיסָהּ כאריסה וכ׳ burned in her stomach like the venom of &c.; [Y. Snh. X, 28ᵈ top ככריסה, v. חֲכִינָה]; a. fr.—Esp. the stomach of ruminants, maw. Ḥull. III, 1 הכ׳ הפנימית the inner stomach, expl. ib. 50ᵇ כל הכ׳ כולו … ואיזהו כ׳ החיצון וכ׳ (masc. !) the whole maw is called the inner stomach, and the outer stomach is the flesh (muscle) which covers the largest portion of the stomach; ib. (another opinion) טפח בוושט סמון לכ׳ וכ׳, corrected; טפח בכ׳ סמוך לוושט one handbreadth of the stomach where it joins the gullet is called the inner stomach; [oth. defin., v. אִסְתּוֹמְכָא, דִּיבָא a. מֵילַת].—Pl. כְּרֵיסוֹת. Succ. 21ᵇ שכְּרֵיסוֹתֵיהֶן רחבות whose bellies are broad (projecting further than the rider’s body; Tosef. Par. III (II), 2 שכְּרֵיסָן רחבה).