Jastrow: לִיכָּא II

לִיכָּא II (= לָא אִיכָּא) there is not, none. Kidd. 21ᵇ בעינא אהבתי … ול׳ the case requires that he must say, ‘I love my master and my wife’ (Ex. XXI, 5), which he could not do (if the master were not permitted to give him a gentile slave to wife on account of his being a priest); ib. 22ᵃ ול׳ which he cannot say (at the beginning of his servitude). Ib. 4ᵇ היכא דל׳ לשנויי where there is no other reply. Ber. 25ᵃ, a. fr. מהא ל׳ למשמע מינה from this nothing can be proved. Snh. 97ᵃ מריש … ל׳ קושטא וכ׳ formerly I thought there is no truth in the world; a. v. fr.