Jastrow: רָדַף

רָדַף (b. h.) to run: to pursue. Gen. R. s. 44 רָדַפְתִּי מלכים וכ׳ I pursued the kings to Damascus. Ab. Zar. 75ᵃ שמימיו רוֹדְפִין (Ms. M. רדופין), v. infra. Snh. VIII, 7 הרוֹדֵף אחר חבירו וכ׳ he that runs after his fellowman with murderous intention. Ib. 74ᵃ רודף שהיה רודף אחר רודף וכ׳ a pursuer who runs after a pursuer in order to save him (prevent him from murder); a. fr.—Pes. 114ᵃ אכול בצל … ולבך רודף עליך Ms. M. 1 (ed. ויהא לבך וכ׳, Ms. M. 2 רדוף) eat onion and sit in the shade (v. צֵל), rather than eat goose and chicken with thy heart within thee running (being restless and greedy).—Part. pass. רָדוּף; f. רְדוּפָה &c. a) quick, rapid. Ab. Zar. 75ᵃ מעיין שמימיו רְדוּפִין Ms. M. (ed. רודפין) a spring whose waters run rapidly; (Y. ib. V, end, 45ᵇ נהר שמימיו מהלכין).—b) anxious, longing. Tosef. Yeb. VI, 6 הרי שהיתה ר׳ לילך וכ׳ if the wife (at the time of her husband’s death) has been following her desire to go on a visit to her parental home; Yeb. 42ᵇ. Keth. 71ᵇ כאן בר׳ וכ׳ in the one case it means when she is anxious to go home (during her first year of married life) &c. Ib. ככלה … ור׳ לילך וכ׳ like a bride that has been found perfect in her husband’s paternal home, and is anxious to go home and tell &c.; Pes. 87ᵃ.—רגל (ה)רְדוּפִין the first festival after marriage. Y. ib. VIII, 35ᵈ top איזהו רגל הר׳ … שאביה רוֹדְפָהּ וכ׳ which festival is ‘the festival of the anxious’?… The first festival after marriage, when her father urges her to go back to her husband’s house. Ib. לא הלכה … רגל ר׳ if she did not go home for the first festival, may the second festival be considered ‘the festival of the anxious’ (with regard to her partaking of the father’s Passover meal)? Cant. R. to VIII, 9 בת מלכים … ר׳ ר׳ a princess that went to observe the first festival at her father’s house; a. e.