Jastrow: מַכָּה

מַכָּה f. (b. h.; נָכָה) wound, plague, stroke, blow. Sabb. 134ᵇ. Meg. 13ᵇ (ref. to Esth. III, 1) אחר שברא … רפואה למ׳ after the Lord had prepared the healing of the wound (the means of salvation); a. v. fr.—מַכַּת בצורת, מ׳ בכורות, מ׳ מרדות &c., v. respective determinants. Sot. III, 4 מכת פרושין Y. ed. (Bab. a. Mish. מַכּוֹת) the wound inflicted by the Pharisees, i.e. injury done under the pretext of strict adherence to the letter of the law, or of benevolence; Y. ib. 19ᵃ מ׳ פ׳ זה שהוא נותן עצה וכ׳ ‘the plague of the Pharisees’ is he who advises heirs to evade paying alimentation to the widow. Ib. זו מ׳ פ׳ נגעו בה (collect. pl.) the Pharisean plague has struck her; ib. זה מ׳ פ׳ נגעו בו his friends under the pretext of benevolence have deprived him of the benefit of the poor-law; Y. Peah VIII, 21ᵃ bot.—Sot. 10ᵇ (play on מ̇כ̇ת̇ם̇, v. מָךְ) שהיתה מ̇כ̇תו ת̇מ̇ה וכ׳ his defect was a perfection, for he was born circumcised; [Rashi: ‘the place where he was to be wounded’].—Pl. מַכּוֹת. Ex. R. s. 10; a. fr.—Snh. I, 2 מ׳ בשלשה corporal punishment (lashes, v. מַלְקוּת) must be decreed by a court of three. Ib. 10ᵃ מ׳ הראויות להשתלש a number of lashes which is divisible by three (39); a. fr.—Maccoth (Punishments), a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli a. Y’rushalmi, of the Order of N’zikin.