Jastrow: סַכָּנָה

סַכָּנָה f. (סָכַן II) trouble, persecution, danger. Keth. 3ᵇ ומס׳ ואילך and since the days of danger (the Hadrianic persecution when the Romans enforced the jus primae noctis). Ib. האי ס׳ אונס הוא you call that risk of life (for religion’s sake)? This is rather assault (which no woman is bound to sacrifice her life in resisting). Ib. משום דאיכא צנועות … ואתיין לידי ס׳ because there are chaste women who would rather suffer death, and their lives might be endangered. Succ. 14ᵇ; Sabb. 21ᵇ, a. fr. בשעת הס׳ in times of religious persecution. Y. Shebi. I, 52ᵈ top מעות של ס׳ coins of the revolution (confiscated coins). Bets. 22ᵃ סַכָּנַת נפשות risk of life (serious illness). Ib. דבר שיש בו ס׳ a case of serious sickness; Succ. 26ᵃ חולה שיש בו ס׳. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 40ᶜ top אופיון ס׳, v. אוּפְיוֹן. Ib., a. e. אהן סומקא ס׳ an inflammation of the eye is a case of serious illness (with regard to breaking the Sabbath laws); a. v. fr.