צָלַב to hang, impale. Esth. R. to I, 8 אתה … וצוֹלֵב לזה when thou raisest the one to dignity, thou must decree hanging for the other. Gen. R. s. 30 אתמול … צוֹלֵב את צוֹלְבָיו yesterday he was prepared to be hanged, and now he hangs those who had intended to hang him; a. fr.—Part. pass. צָלוּב; f. צְלוּבָה &c. Yeb. XVI, 3 ואפי׳ ראוהו … צ׳ even if witnesses saw him … nailed to the stake (v. צְלוּכ h.) Tosef. Gitt. VII (V), 1; Y. ib. VII, 48ᶜ bot. היה צ׳ וכ׳ if a man was impaled or being bled to death, and motioned (to his friends) and said, write a letter of divorce &c. Ohol. III, 5; Tosef. ib. IV, 11 צ׳ שדמו שותת one nailed to the stake whose blood runs freely. Koh. R. to VII, 26 לצְלוּבִים, v. בַּכִּיר; a. fr.
Nif. - נִצְלָב to be hanged, impaled. Esth. R. introd. (ref. to Deut. XXVIII, 66) זה שהוא יוצא להִצָּלֵב that is he who is taken out to be impaled. Ib. to I, 12 אימתי … כשנ׳ המן when was his wrath pacified? When Haman was hanged. Ib. to III, 1 אף סופו … לִיצָּלֵב this man, too, will in the end be hanged; a. fr.