Jastrow: סָרַס I

סָרַס I , Pi. סֵירס (cmp. הָרַס, רָסַס) to destroy, uproot; to mutilate, esp. to make impotent. Tosef. B. Bath. IV, 7 חלות דבש אינו רשאי לסָרֵס וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (oth. ed. לירש) if the honey-combs of a bee-hive are sold, the purchaser must not uproot (tear out) all of them at the same time, but must leave the outermost cakes &c. Sot. 36ᵃ סֵירְסַתָּן מלמטה it (the wasp צִרְעָה) mutilated them at their lower extremities. Cant. R. to I, 1 סֵירְסוֹ made him impotent. Kidd. 25ᵃ עבד שסִרְסוֹ וכ׳ a slave whom his master mutilated by injury to his testicles. Sabb. 110ᵇ הרוצה שיְסָרֵס וכ׳ if one desires to emasculate a cock, let him take off his comb, and he will thereby be emasculated (without an operation). Ib. 111ᵃ במְסָרֵס אחר מסרס if one adds to the mutilation caused by another person; a. fr.—B. Bath. V, 3 נוטל ג׳ נחלין ומסרס the buyer takes three broods, after which the owner may make the bees impotent of propagation; ib. 80ᵃ במה מְסָרְסָן וכ׳ by what means does one make them impotent?… By feeding them with mustard. Ib. לא חרדל מסרסן וכ׳ mustard does not make them impotent &c.—Trnsf. to disarrange, upset; to transpose. Ib. (another interpret. of ומסרס, Mish. l. c.) נוטל … בסירוס, v. סֵירוּס. Ib. 119ᵇ (ref. to Num. XXVII, 2) סָרֵס המקרא ודרשהו invert the order in which the persons are mentioned in that verse, and interpret it. Lev. R. s. 27, beg. (ref. to Ps. XXXVI, 7) סרס המקרא וכ׳ transpose the verse, and explain it: ‘thy kindness is as far above thy judgments, as the mountains are above the great deep’. Ex. R. s. 5 (ref. to מי, Ex. V, 2) סרס אותו מי ים וכ׳ transpose mi and read yam, the sea made thee know the Lord; a. fr.—[Lev. R. s. 12 מסרסתו, read: מְסַטַּרְתּוֹ, v. סָטַר.]—Part. pass. מְסוֹרָס upside down, transposed &c. Nidd. III, 5 יצא … מס׳ if the embryo came out with its feet foremost. Num. R. s. 11 (ref. to Ex. XX, 24) זה מקרא מס׳ וכ׳ this verse must be interpreted by transposition, wherever I shall come and bless thee, there I shall allow my Name (the Tetragrammaton) to be pronounced. Mekh. B’shall., Vayass‘a, s. 4. Gen. R. s. 70 (ref. to Gen. XXVIII, 22) מְסוֹרֶסֶת היא הפרשה the accounts of the section are not in chronological order, opp. על הסדר וכ׳; a. e.