Jastrow: רֶוַוח

רֶוַוח, רֵוַח, רֵי׳ m. (b. h.; preced.) 1) extension, wide space; interval. Gen. R. s. 74 אין … במקום ר׳ they (the eastern men) hold council only in an open and level place (where they are safe against spies); Yalk. ib. 130 בשדה דאית בה ר׳; Koh. R. to VI, 23 במקום מְרוּוָּח (v. רָוַוח); Pesik. Par., p. 34ᵃ במקום רחוק (corr. acc.). Gen. R. s. 19 (play on לרוּחַ היום, Gen. III, 8) לרי׳ היום for the extension of the day (in order to extend Adam’s day to God’s day, a thousand years); Pesik. R. s. 40 יום משלי … לר׳ היום וכ׳ I will give him one of my days,—‘to the extension of the day’—I will give him &c. Ḥull. V, 3 בזמן שאין לו ר׳ when there is no interval of time between the sale of the dam for slaughter and that of her young. Koh. R. to I, 7 ארבע … ר׳ בין וכ׳ there was a space of four cubits between each two. Ber. 15ᵇ שיתן ר׳ בין הדבקים he must allow an interval between words that may easily run into each other; a. fr. —2) ease, relief. Tosef. Sot. II, 3 שאם … בצער יולדת בר׳ if (before she was tested) she used to give birth with great pains, she would now do so with ease; Num. R. s. 941; Ber. 31ᵇ. Tanḥ. Vayishl. 8 כשהיית בצרה … בר׳ וכ׳ when thou wast in trouble, thou didst make a vow, but now that thou art relieved, thou forgettest; a. e. —3) profit, gain. Midr. Till. to Ps. XCII; Yalk. ib. 843 והיו … את הר׳ שהרויח and when the students saw the gain that he had made &c.