Jastrow: נוֹפֶת

נוֹפֶת f. (b. h. נֹפֶת; denom. of נָפָה) 1) sifted flour, flour-dust; 2) the net-like honey, honey-comb. Sot. IX, 12 בטל … ונ׳ צופים the shamir ceased and the nofeth tsufim; ib. 48ᵇ מאי נ׳ צ׳ סולת שצפה ע"ג נפה what is meant by n. ts.? Fine flour which floats on (sticks to) the top of the sieve; (anoth. explan.) שתי ככרות וכ׳ two loaves stuck to opposite walls of the oven, which rise so that they touch each other; (anoth. explan.) דבש הבא מן הצופים Rashi (ed. מן הציפיא) honey which comes from Tzofim (v. צוֹפִים); Y. ib. IX, 24ᵇ bot. דבש הבא בצפייה, v. צִיפְיָא.—Gen. R. s. 71 (play on נפ̇ת̇ל̇י̇) נ̇פ̇ת̇ עצמה לא של̇י̇ היא (not עצמו) is not mine the honey-comb itself? (allud. to Ps. XIX, 11); Yalk. ib. 127. Tanḥ. Ekeb 1 … שאין בכל מיני שהיא צפה בנפה וכ׳ (not בפה) for among all kinds of grain flour there is none more precious than the fine wheat flour which sticks to the sieve, but the words of the Law are more precious than it, for we read (Ps. l. c.), ‘sweeter than honey and flour-dust;’ Yalk. Ps. 676.—[Gen. R. l. c. נופתי פיתיתי some ed., v. יָסַת.]