Jastrow: לִימּוּד

לִימּוּד, לִמּוּד m. (b. h. לָמַד) teaching, learning, study (interch. with תלמוד); training; habit. Kidd. 40ᵇ ל׳ גדול שהל׳ וכ׳ study is more (than practice), for study leads to practice; B. Kam. 17ᵃ; Meg. 27ᵃ (Ms. M. תלמוד). Hor. 13ᵃ משכחים את הל׳ cause man to forget what he has learned; ib. 13ᵇ משיב ל׳ וכ׳ brings back to recollection the study of seventy years. Ex. R. s. 43 לשון ל׳ (the root ירה in Hif.) means to teach. Ber. 7ᵇ גדולה … יותר מלִמּוּדָהּ the ministrations (of the disciples to the doctors) of the Law are more valuable than the direct teaching of it. Tanḥ. Ki Thetsé 1 מבקש לִמּוּדוֹ וכ׳ he seeks for the enjoyments to which he has been used and fails to find them; a. fr.—Pl. לִימּוּדִים, לִימּוּדִין, לִמּ׳. Snh. 65ᵇ; Yalk. Deut. 918 (expl. מעונן, v. עוּן) (who says) לִימּוּדֵי … חטין יפות it is usual for the wheat crops to be fine in the ante-Sabbatical years; Tosef. Sabb. VII (VIII), 14; Sifré Deut. 171 ל׳ … להיות יפות the ante-Sabbatical years are usually good (in crops); Sifra K’dosh. Par. 3, ch. VI לְמוּדוֹת … להיות יפות.