Jastrow: צִיץ II

צִיץ II m. (b. h.; preced.) 1) something glistening, foil. Tanḥ. Vayetsé 12 (describing the Teraphim) מביאין … וכותבין על צ׳ זהב וכ׳ they get a firstborn man and slaughter him …, and write the name of a spirit of uncleanness on a golden plate, and put the plate under his tongue with sorcerous ceremonies &c.—Esp. the highpriest’s front plate. Succ. 5ᵃ צ׳ דומה כמין טס וכ׳ the front plate was something like a gold foil &c.; Sabb. 63ᵇ. Zeb. 88ᵇ צ׳ … עזות פנים the plate procures forgiveness for sins committed by effrontery. Gen. R. s. 71 בזה צ׳ ובזה צ׳ in this (the tribe of Levi) is the sheen (of the high priest’s frontlet), and in that (the tribe of Judah) is the splendor (of the crown, Ps. CXXXII, 18); a. fr.—[Pl. צִיצִין. Tosef. Sot. III, 4 ed. Zuck. בצ׳ with fineries, v. צִלְצוּל.] —2) blossom. Gen. R. s. 53 (ref. to Is. XL, 8) יבש … ונבל צִיצוֹ the flower of Abimelech was dried up, and his blossom faded (his procreative faculty was lost); Yalk. Is. 309.—Pl. צִיצִים, צִיצִין. Sabb. 145ᵇ (ref. to Is. XXVII, 6) אלו … עושין צ׳ וכ׳ this refers to the scholars in Babylonia who create blossoms and flowers for the Torah (revive learning); a. e. —3) filament, thread, thread-like shred, fringe. Ib. 131ᵃ Ms. M., v. צוּץ.—Pl. as ab. Ib. 94ᵇ; Tosef. ib. IX (X), 12 צפורן … וצ׳ וכ׳ a nail, and shreds (of skin) the largest portions of which are severed from the body. Sabb. XIX, 6 צ׳ המעכבין וכ׳ shreds of the corona which make the circumcision invalid. Y. ib. XIX, 17ᵃ; a. fr.—Tosef. Ab. Zar. V (VI), 2 (describing a scarab or dragon used as an emblem of idolatry, v. דְּרָקוֹן) כל שהצ׳ יוצאין מצוארו from whose neck fringes come forth; Y. ib. III, 42ᵈ top; Bab. ib. 43ᵃ