Jastrow: צִפּוֹר

צִפּוֹר, צִיפּ׳ c. (b. h.; v. צְפַר I) 1) bird. Ab. Zar. III, 1 כל שיש בידו … או צ׳ וכ׳ a statue which holds in its hand a staff or a bird &c. Ib. 41ᵃ צ׳ שתופש … כצ׳ the emblem of the bird is a symbol that he causes himself to be caught like a bird in behalf of the entire world (v. כַּדּוּר); Y. ib. III, 42ᶜ bot. צ׳ ותמצא וכ׳ the bird alludes to (Is. X, 14), ‘My hand reacheth forth, as for a nest, to the riches of all peoples’ (universal conquest); Num. R. s. 13. Sabb. XIII, 5, v. צוּד h. Ib. 106ᵇ, a. fr. צ׳ דרור, v. דְּרוֹר; a. v. fr.—Y. Snh. X, 28ᵈ bot. אמר לו אין צִפּוֹרְךָ מדינית (some ed. צִפּוֹרָה) he said to Moses, is not thy bird (Zipporah) a Midianite?—Makhsh. V, 2 העושה צ׳ במים (Var. צִנּוֹר) if one makes ‘a bird’ in water (producing bubbles by blowing through a tube); Tosef. ib. II, 13.—Pl. צִפּוֹרִים, צִפֳּרִים, רִין …, צִי׳. Naz. I, 1 הרי עלי צ׳ וכ׳ (Y. ed. צפר׳) if a person says, I vow birds …, he is bound to be a Nazarite; Y. ib. 51ᵃ bot., sq. ציפורין. Ib. וכי צ׳ הוא מביא וכ׳ does the Nazarite offer ‘birds’, does he not offer doves &c.? Ib. כל עוף … קרוי צ׳ all birds, whether clean or unclean, are called tsipporin. Bab. ib. 3ᵃ ציפרין סמוכין לשיער וכ׳ in saying, ‘I vow birds’, he presumably had in his mind the birds mentioned in connection with the growth of hair (Dan. IV, 30). Neg. XIV, 1 צִפֳּרֵי דרור (Mish. ed. צפרים), v. דְּרוֹר. Ab. Zar. 29ᵃ; Ber. 57ᵇ בשר צ׳ birds’ flesh (bad for convalescents); a. fr. —2) צ׳ נפש (צִפָּר נ׳, צִי׳) [‘the bird of life’,] the cartilage at the end of the sternum (cartilago ensiformis). B. Kam. 90ᵇ במה הכהו … ציפור נפשו Ms. R. (ed. כמה … ציפר נ׳; Ms. F. צפר; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40) wherewith he struck him, and whether he struck him on his leg or on his stomach; Yalk. Ex. 331; Tosef. Snh. XII, 3. Tosef. Macc. V (IV), 15 כדי שלא תגיע לציפר וכ׳ ed. Zuck. (Var. לצפור; לצורפי, cler. error for לציפור) lest the whip reach his stomach, and he die.—צ׳ כרמים, v. צִפּוֹרֶת.—[צפור, Tosef. Kel. B. Bath. IV, 14 ed. Zuck., v. צְפִירָא II.]