Jastrow: קָנֶה

קָנֶה m. (b. h.; cmp. קָנַן) calamus, reed; anything resembling a reed, branch of a candlestick; windpipe &c. Cant. R. to I, 6 (legend about the origin of Rome) ירד … ק׳ גדול וכ׳ Michael the archangel came down and planted a large reed in the sea &c. Taan. 20ᵃ לעולם … רך כק׳ וכ׳ man must at all times be yielding like a reed and not unbending like a cedar, v. קוֹלְמוֹס. Tosef. Sabb. XII (XIII), 14 ק׳ של מנורה the branch of a candlestick; Sabb. 47ᵃ קְנֵה מנורה; Y. ib. XII, 13ᶜ קְנֵי. Ib. ק׳ של ציידין a part of the composite pole which the hunters use (to reach the nests); Bab. l. c. קְ׳ סיידין of the whitewashers; Tosef. l. c. ציידין (Var. ס׳). Ker. 5ᵃ קְנֵה בשם sweet calamus. Kel. XVII, 16 קְ׳ מאזניים the beam of the balance. Ib. ק׳ של עני וכ׳ the poor man’s cane which has a receptacle for water.—דחה בק׳, v. דָּחָה.—Ber. 61ᵃ bot. ק׳ מוציא קול the windpipe produces sound. Ḥull. 21ᵇ; Zeb. 65ᵇ עד שמגיע … לק׳ until he reaches (with his nail) the gullet or the windpipe. Ḥull. 28ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) נבדקיה לק׳ וכ׳ let him examine the windpipe and cut it &c. Men. XI, 6 עשרים … כחצי ק׳ חלול twenty-eight staves shaped like a segment of a hollow reed; a. fr.—Ohol. I, 8 ק׳ = קְנֵה זרוע forearm.—קְנֵה שפה, v. קָמָה.—הושיט בק׳ [to hold forth on a cane,] to treat lightly, consider unimportant. Num. R. s. 8 end דבר … והושיטו לו בק׳ (not והושיטה) something for which that ancestor prostrated himself in prayer (Gen. XXVIII, 20) …, and now comes this man (Aquila) and holds it up to contempt!; Yalk. Gen. 123; Gen. R. s. 70. Ib. את מושיטו לזה בק׳ dost thou make it appear contemptible to this man?; Koh. R. to VII, 8.—Pl. קָנִים, קָנִין. Men. l. c. Ib. סידור ק׳ the arrangement of the staves between the cakes of the show-bread. Kel. XVII, 17, a. fr. מחצלת ק׳ a reed mat. Ex. R. s. 35 (ref. to Ps. LXVIII, 31) חיה הדרה בין הק׳ the beast that dwells among the reeds (Rome, v. Cant. R. to I, 6, quoted above). Gen. R. s. 1 עשיר … לק׳ he is a rich man and needs no reeds (for his house); הרי הוא צריך לקְנֵי המדה he still needs the measuring rods; a. fr.