Jastrow: נֵזֶק

נֵזֶק m. (b. h.; denom. of זקק) [junction, touch; cmp. נגע, רע &c.,] accident, evil, injury, damage; תַּשְׁלוּמֵי נ׳ indemnity. Ab. Zar. I, 7 וכל דבר שיש בו נ׳ לרבים or anything through which the public may be injured. B. Kam. I, 1 חב … לשלם תשלומי נ׳ וכ׳ the offender is bound to pay indemnity with the best of the land (out of his best lands, v. עִידִית). Ib. 2 הכשרתי במקצת נִזְקוֹ I have been partly instrumental in injuring him, v. הֶכְשֵׁר. Ib. II, 5, a. fr. חצי נ׳ indemnity up to half the damage, opp. נ׳ שלם full indemnity. Ib. VIII, 1 בנ׳ בצער וכ׳ (has to pay) damages (for the maimed limb), an indemnity for the pain inflicted &c.; a. fr.—Pl. נְזָקִים, נְזָקִין; constr. נִזְקֵי. Ib. 84ᵃ דנין נ׳ מנ׳ וכ׳ we may draw an analogy between different cases of mayhem, but not between mayhem and homicide. Ib. נ׳ שור בשור damages for an ox injured by an ox; a. fr.—נְזָקִין, נְזִיקִין (fr. נָזִיק) cases of damages, laws concerning injuries; damages. Ib. I, 1, v. אָב II. Mekh. Mishp. s. 14; a. fr., v. נִיזָּקִין.—Esp. N’ziḳin, (Seder N’ziḳin) name of the fourth Order of the Mishnah, Tosefta and Talmud, also of a section of M’khilta Mishpaṭim. Sabb. 31ᵃ. Lev. R. s. 19 נ׳ ל׳ פרקים N. which contains thirty chapters; a. e.—B. Kam. 102ᵃ כולה נ׳ חדא וכ׳ the entire N’ziḳin (Baba Ḳamma, M’tsiʿa and Bathra) is one treatise.