Jastrow: קַב

קַב m. (b. h.; קבב to hollow out, arch; cmp. גבב, 1) Kab, a measure of capacity, one sixth of a S’ah. Sabb. 11ᵇ הדיוט שהקק קב וכ׳ if an unskilled man caves out a Kab in a log (on the Sabbath); [Ar. refers to קַב 2, v. infra]. Tosef. B. Bath. V, 10 בכל מקום … קב וכ׳ everywhere (in all shops) they must make (keep) measures … of a Kab, half a Kab &c.; B. Bath. 89ᵇ. Sot. 8ᵇ a. e. קב וחצי קב וכ׳ minor measures of sin, v. סְאָה. Y. Ḥall. II, 58ᶜ bot. קב טיברני dough of a Tiberian Kab of flour. B. Mets. 80ᵇ קב לכתף one Kab (in addition to the load agreed upon) for a carrier is an unlawful overload; a. fr.—Sot. III, 4, a. e. בקב ותפלות, v. תִּפְלוּת. Snh. 29ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) ההוא … קב רשו there was a man whom they nicknamed ‘a Kabful of notes of indebtedness’.—קב ונקי, v. נָקִי I.—Du. קַבַּיִים; pl. קַבִּים, קַבִּין. B. Mets. 21ᵃ ק׳ בשמונה וכ׳ if one finds two Kabs of fruits scattered within a radius of eight cubits.—Ḥall. II, 3 יעשנה ק׳ let him make his doughs Kab-wise (so as to be exempt from the priest’s share). Ib. 4. Kidd. 49ᵇ עשרה ק׳ וכ׳ ten measures of &c. Ber. 22ᵃ תשעה ק׳ nine Kabs of water poured over a person in place of immersion; a. fr.—Denom. קַבִּי, pl. קַבִּיִּים pieces of dough containing a Kab of flour each. Ḥall. II, 3 אבל ק׳ אין להם חלק בשם (Y. ed. חלה) doughs made of a Kab each have no share in the name of ḥallah —2) a piece of wood hollowed out for the stump of a leg, a sort of artificial foot (cmp. אָנְקִטְמִין). Yeb. 102ᵇ (חלצה) בקב הקיטע if a woman performed the ceremony of Ḥălitsah (חֲלִיצָה) by taking off the Yabam’s artificial foot. Sabb. VI, 8; a. e.—Pl. as ab. Ḥag. 4ᵃ בעלי ק׳ stump-legged persons; a. e. —3) cavity, the lower part of a trumpet or horn. Kel. XI, 7 הקב שלה Mish. ed. a. Ar. (Talm. ed. הקו, ed. Dehr. הקב).