צָמַת (b. h.) [to be pressed together,] 1) to meet, join. Ḥull. 76ᵃ צוֹמְתִין, v. צוֹמֶת. —2) to be smashed. B. Kam. 85ᵇ הכהו … וצָמְתָה ידו וכ׳ if one struck his neighbor on his hand, and his hand was smashed, but is expected to recover; Y. Naz. IX, end, 58ᵃ —3) to contract; to reduce a swelling by applications of vinegar, wine &c. Pes. 40ᵃ שורן … וחומץ צוֹמְתָן he steeps the barley-corns in vinegar, and this binds them (prevents moisture from penetrating and creating fermentation); v. צָפַד. Sabb. 109ᵃ … מי שנגפה צוֹמְתָהּ ביין (Ar. בחומץ) he whose hand or foot was struck, may apply wine (vinegar) to reduce the swelling (on the Sabbath).
Pi. - צִימֵּת [to press together,] 1) to heap up, store, save. Gen. R. s. 83, end אבותיך מְצַמְּתִים ואתה מבזבז thy ancestors saved, and thou squanderest; Yalk. ib. 140 מְצַמְצְמִין; Yalk. Chr. 1074 מצומצמים (read מצמ׳). —2) to gather together, summon to a meeting. Y’lamd. to Gen. XLVI, 28 quot. in Ar. (play on צמתך, Cant. IV, 1) שהוא מְצַמְּתָן … בצמאה he summons them to the synagogues, and they drink the words of the Law with thirst.—Part. pass. מְצוּמָּת; pl. מְצוּמָּתִים, מְצוּמָּתִין a) restrained, abstemious, self-controlled. Cant. R. to VI, 7 (ref. to צמתך, ib.) על הצנועין ועל המצ׳ שבכם of the chaste and self-controlled among you.—b) summoned to follow, follower. Pesik. Haʿomer, p. 70ᵇ (ref. to צמים, Job V, 5) אברהם וכל המצ׳ לו Abraham and all his followers; Lev. R. s. 28; Pesik. R. s. 18; Yalk. Job 898.
Nif. - נִצְמַת to be quashed; (denom. of צְמִיתוּת) to be sold for ever, not to be recovered in the jubilee. B. Mets. 79ᵃ (ref. to לצמיתת, Lev. XXV, 30) מי שאין שם יובל נִצְמֶתֶת וכ׳ that which without the law concerning the jubilee would be sold for ever, is recovered by dint of the jubilee; יצאת זו … אינה נצמתת which excludes a case like this (a sale for sixty years), where the sale would not be perpetual even if the law of jubilee did not exist at all.