Jastrow: לקי

לקי, לָקָה [to become less,] 1) to suffer, be under a disadvantage. B. Mets. III, 12 יִלְקֶה בחסר ויתר he suffers the disadvantages of loss or gain, i.e. he must pay according to the original value of his charge in case of depreciation, or according to the present value in case of a rise in value. Tosef. Yeb. IX, 3 בזו מידת הדין לוֹקָה justice suffers under this rule, i.e. it is inconsistent; Y. B. Kam. IV, beg. 4ᵃ; a. e.—Esp. to be smitten, afflicted with disease (esp. leprosy); (of crops) to be struck (by hail &c.); to be blighted. Sabb. 87ᵇ לָקוּ בכורות the first-born (in Egypt) were smitten. Ib. 97ᵃ; Yoma 19ᵇ החושד … לוקה בגופו he who entertains a suspicion against worthy men, will be smitten with disease; Ex. R. s. 3 אף אתה ראוי לִלְקות בצרעת thou, likewise, deservest to be afflicted with leprosy. Ḥull. 55ᵃ לָקְתָה בכוליא אחת if one of its kidneys is disordered.—B. Mets. IX, 7 לקתה the wheat crop was blasted.—Ber. 18ᵇ שלו לא ל׳ his crop was not struck by hail.—Makhsh. IV, 3, a. e. שלא יִלְקֶה הכותל that the wall may not suffer (from the rain); a. fr. —2) (of luminaries) to be eclipsed. Mekh. Bo. s. 1 כשהחמה לוֹקָה when there is an eclipse of the sun; כשהמזלות לוֹקִים when planets are eclipsed; Succ. 29ᵃ; a. fr.—Part. pass. לָקוּי disordered, sickly, stunted. Sifra Thazr., Neg., ch. VII, Par. 5; Neg. X, 1 (expl. Lev. XIII, 30) דק ל׳ קצר dak means diseased (sparse) and short hair. Yeb. 80ᵃ כל שממעי אמו ל׳ one born with defective genitals. Tosef. ib. X, 6 קולו ל׳ his voice is abnormal (womanly, thin). Ib. 7 קולה ל׳ her voice is abnormal (manlike; Yeb. 80ᵇ עבה). Ib. שערו ל׳ his hair is abnormal; a. fr. —3) (law) to be punished with lashes. Macc. I, 1 לוקה ארבעים he receives forty lashes (v. אַרְבַּע). Ib. III, 1 אלו הן הלוֹקִין the following persons receive (thirty nine) lashes. Snh. IX, 5 מי של׳ ושנה he who has been lashed twice (and commits the same offence again); a. v. fr.