Jastrow: רְטִיָּה

רְטִיָּה, רְטִיָּיה f. (רָטָה) emollient, plaster, compress. Ex. R. s. 26 אין מידתי … מכה באזמל ומרפא בר׳ וכ׳ my (God’s) way is not like the way of man (surgeon), who wounds with a knife and heals with a plaster, but I &c.; ib. 50; Lev. R. s. 18, end; Mekh. B’shall., s. 5; Tanḥ. B’shall. 23; Tanḥ. Vayesheb 9. Cant. R. to IV, 5 בו"ד אין מקדים ר׳ וכ׳ a human being does not prepare the plaster before he sees the wound, but not so the Lord, he prepares the plaster &c.; Yalk. Jer. 312. Tosef. Pes. II (III), 3; a. v. fr.—Pl. רְטִיּוֹת. Ex. R. s. 27 ונמצא כולו ר׳ finally his body is covered all over with plasters.