פָּשַׁל (cmp. פָּתַל) to twist, knot, v. infra.
Hif. - הִפְשִׁיל 1) to knot and fasten. Tosef. Sabb. IV (V), 2 ויַפְשִׁיל את הרצועה תחת זנבו and fasten the strap under its tail; Y. ib. V, 7ᵇ bot.; Bab. ib. 53ᵃ יפשיל Ms. M. (ed. יִפְשׁוֹל). Tosef. ib. VI (VII), 9 אל תַּפְשִׁיל ידך לאחוריך וכ׳ do not twist thy hands on thy back, lest we be prevented from work (a superstitious belief); Yalk. Lev. 587.—Esp. ה׳ לאחוריו to twist or knot a bundle and throw it over one’s shoulder. Succ. 27ᵇ טליתו וכ׳ … ה׳ R. El. tied up his cloak and threw it over his back and went off; Tosef. ib. I, 9 … רגליו וכ׳ ה׳ (read בגדיו, v. infra) R. El. bundled up his garments &c., i.e. went off in an ostentatious manner). Tosef. Ḥull. VIII, 4 [read:] נותנן … ומַפְשִׁילָן לאחוריו he may wrap them up with the peddler’s bundle and strike, and cast them over his shoulder. Men. 85ᵇ ה׳ כליו לאחוריו he tied up his implements and threw them &c. Kil. IX, 5 Y. ed. הצנועים מַפְשִׁילִין לאחוריהן במקל the scrupulous carry (the garments of mixed material, כלאים) in bundles over their shoulders. Y. ib. IX, beg. 31ᵈ (ref. to לא יעלה, Lev. XIX, 19) I might have thought, לא יפשיל את הקופה וכ׳ (not לך) one dare not throw the bundle (containing forbidden garments) over one’s shoulder; Sifré Deut. 232 לא יַפְשִׁילֶנּוּ בקופה וכ׳ (not לקופה); Yalk. Lev. 614 לא יִפְשְׁלֶנּוּ בקופה וכ׳; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 22, end; Yalk. ib. 38 ה׳ דברים לאחוריו וכ׳ he (Cain) threw the words (which he had heard) over his shoulder and went off, i.e. was petulant. Pesik. Shub., p. 160ᵃ יצא כמפשיל דברים וכ׳ he went off like one that casts the words &c.; Lev. R. s. 10 ה׳ בגדיו לאחוריו, v. supra.—Part. pass. מוּפְשָׁל; f. מוּפְשֶׁלֶת. Y. B. Kam. II, 3ᵃ היתה קופתו מ׳ וכ׳ if his bundle (of grain &c.) was hanging over his back &c. Ber. 62ᵇ; a. e. —2) to twist (wicks), (v. פְּתִילָה). Y. Succ. V, 55ᵇ bot. (expl. מפקיעין) מַפְשִׁילִים they make wicks of them, v. פָּקַע. Keth. 75ᵃ הִפְשִׁילָה דדיה וכ׳ she twisted her breasts back of her and gave suck to her child; a. e.