נָשַךְ (b. h.; cmp. נשק) 1) to bite. Gen. R. s. 74, beg. שאינן נוֹשְׁכִין ואוכלין וכ׳ they do not bite off and eat, but out &c.; Pesik. Par., p. 34ᵃ; Koh. R. to VII, 23. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXXVII אל תהי קורא וישקהו אלא וַיִּשָּׁכֵהוּ read not, ‘and he kissed him’ (Gen. XXXIII, 4) but, ‘and he bit him.’ Tosef. B. Kam. I, 5 אינה מועדת … לִישּׁוֹךְ is not considered as forewarned (v. מוּעָד) as regards … biting; a. fr.—Part. pass. נָשׁוּךְ, f. נְשׁוּכָה &c. Num. R. s. 20 רופא … בלשונו נְשׁוּךְ נחש a physician that comes to heal with his tongue (charm) one bitten by a serpent. Ter. VIII, 6 נְשׁוּכַת הנחש וכ׳ any food showing traces of being bitten at by a serpent is forbidden &c.; a. fr.—Trnsf. to adhere to, be affixed. Pes. 48ᵇ ככרות … שנוֹשְׁכוֹת זו מזו Babylonian loaves which stick to one another; T’bul Yom I, 1 נושכות זו בזו; Ḥall. II, 4 עד שיִשּׁוֹכוּ (Nif.) until the pieces of dough have grown together in rising, contrad. to נגע. Sabb. 17ᵃ הנושכות clusters of grapes which stick together (and cannot be separated without squeezing some grapes open); a. fr.—Part. pass. as ab. Y. Ḥall. I, 57ᵇ בנ׳ if refers to pieces of dough sticking together, contrad. to בלול kneaded. Ib. III, 59ᶜ top עיסת הנ׳ dough made one lump by sticking; נ׳ מאליו sticking together of itself (by rising), opp. הִשִּׁיכוֹ בידו he pasted it together with his hand. Ib. 58ᵇ bot., sq. הנָ׳ תורה the liability to T’rumah, Ḥallah &c. of joined lumps of dough is Biblical law. Y. Kil. IX, end, 32ᵈ אין אסור אלא נ׳ בלבד the combination of heterogeneous materials (כִּלְאַיִם) is forbidden only when they are interlaced. Ib. וההן נו נ׳, v. נוּ. —2) (denom. of נֶשֶׁךְ) to take interest. B. Mets. V, 1; a. e.
Nif. - נִישֵּׁךְ same, to bite. Gen. R. s. 78 לנַשְּׁכוֹ to bite him. Tanḥ. Vayishl. 4 וינַשְּׁכֶנּוּ and may bite him; a. e.—Part. pass. מְנוּשָּׁךְ. Tosef. B. Kam. III, 6 או מ׳ or he is found to have been bitten.