פָּשַׁר [to divide, to spread,] 1) to melt, dissolve. Mekh. B’shall., Vayassʿa, s. 4 (expl. ונמס, Ex. XVI, 21, cmp. פִּשְׁפָּשׁ III) כיון … היה פוֹשֵׁר והולך וכ׳ when the sun shone upon it (the manna), it melted and formed rivulets which ran &c. —2) to be stale, tepid. Tanḥ. Vayesheb 4 כוס פשור (prob. to be read פּוֹשֵׁר) a cup of wine mixed with stale water. Sifra M’tsorʿa, ch. I מים פושרים stale water (from pools), opp. מים חיים. Par. VIII, 9 (מים) המלוחים והפּוֹשְׁרִים salty water and pool water.—In gen. פּוֹשְׁרִים, פּוֹשְׁרִין (sub. מים) tepid liquids. Y. Sabb. XX, 17ᶜ bot., opp. צונין. Gen. R. s. 86 when his master said to him מזוג פ׳ והיו פ׳ mix the wine with tepid water, it was tepid, opp. רותחין. Ber. 16ᵇ; Y. ib. II, 5ᵇ bot.; v. כָּוָה. Y. Nidd. II, beg. 50ᶜ; a. fr.—[Y. Keth. X, end, 34ᵃ, v. Pi.—Yalk. Gen. 38 ופשרתי, v. Nithpa
Hif. - הִפְשִׁיר 1) to make tepid; to temper, cool. Sabb. 40ᵇ מפני שמַפְשִׁיר מים שעליו because (by standing against the fire after a cold bath) he tempers (warms) the water on his body. Ib. III, 5 (41ᵃ, sq.) כדי להַפְשִׁירָן enough to temper the cold water, opp. בשביל שיחמו to get hot. Y. ib. III, 6ᵇ top מותר להַפְשִׁיר במקום שהיד שולטת you may temper (cold water, on the Sabbath) by contact with a temperature which the hand can endure. Lev. R. s. 26 (ref. to Ez. X, 7) הִפְשִׁירָן ונתנן וכ׳ he lowered the temperature of the coals and handed them to him; Yalk. Kings 220; Tanḥ. Emor 3; Midr. Sam. ch. XXIV (Yoma 77ᵃ נצטננו). Pesik. R. s. 12 (ref. to קָרְךָ, Deut. XXV, 18) אשר קֵירְךָ הִפְשִׁירְךָ וכ׳ ‘who cooled thee’, he (Amalek) made thee lukewarm, he made thee cold like water (so that others were encouraged to attack thee); a. fr. —2) (v. פְּשָׁרָה) to compromise. Y. Sot. V, 20ᶜ bot. אברהם עשה … וה׳ עמו וכרות עמו וכ׳ Abraham changed the evil inclination within him into good …, he compromised with it, (as we read, Neh. IX, 8,) and he made a covenant with it (his heart); Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ bot. והפסיד אלא (corr. acc.).—Tosef. Erub. XI (VIII), 11, v. infra.