Jastrow: נוֹד

נוֹד c. (b. h. , v. Ges. Thes. s. v. נָאַד) leather bottle, skin. Ges. R. s. 53 (ref. to Ps. LVI, 9) כאותה בעלת נ׳ as (thou didst to) that woman carrying the water bottle (Hagar); Yalk. Ps. 774 נֹאד; Yalk. Gen. 94. Ḥull. 14ᵇ, v. בָּקַע. Lev. R. s. 6 משביעין האדם … אתמול היה הנ׳ הזה וכ׳ they administer an oath to a person by the book of the Law and bring before him blown-up (empty) hides, to intimate, yesterday this hide was filled with sinews and bones and now it is empty, so will he who wantonly causes his neighbor to swear become empty &c. Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 6 (ref. to ונֵד Ex. XV, 8) מה נֹד צרור וכ׳ as a tied-up skin stands and neither lets (air) escape nor receives any &c.; Yalk. Ex. 248 נוֹד; a. e.—Pl. נוֹדוֹת. Lev. R. l. c. נ׳ נפיחים, v. supra. Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵇ top נ׳ נפוחות; Lam. R. to II, 2 נ׳ מנופחות blown-up bottles (having the appearance of being filled with water). Ab. Zar. II, 4; a. e.