Jastrow: סְבָר

סְבָר, סְבָרָא m. (preced.) 1) brightness of mind, ingenuity. Targ. Cant. V, 10. —2) speculation, logical argument. Meg. 18ᵇ, a. e. (expl. מתנמנם, v. נִים) דקרו … ולא ידע לאהדורי ס׳ you call him, and he answers but cannot recall an argument. Y. Ber. III, 6ᶜ top כל סבר קשי דהוה לי תמן סבירתיה any hard thinking I had to do, there I did it. Ib. כל ההוא סברא קשיא וכ׳ all that difficult subject of T’bul Yom I studied there.—Esp. logical deduction, conclusion by reasoning, opp. to גמרא verbal tradition. Yoma 33ᵃ bot. גמרא גמירנא ס׳ לא ידענא I know the final decision as a tradition, the argument I do not know. Gitt. 6ᵇ בשלמא מילתא דתליא בס׳ לחיי וכ׳ if it were a thing which depends on reason, you might be right, but this is a tradition. B. Bath. 77ᵃ גמרא או ס׳ is this a tradition or a logical inference? Ab. Zar. 34ᵇ איבעית אימא ס׳ ואב"א קרא I may say, it is founded on reason, or I may say, it is intimated in the Scriptures; a. v. fr. —3) common sense, ordinary conception, opp. עיקר. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᶜ bot.; Midr. Till. to Ps. XVIII, 8 כך הוא ס׳ דמילתא, v. סֵבֶר 3.