Jastrow: שְׁמוּעָה

שְׁמוּעָה f. (b. h.; שָׁמַע) 1) report, news. R. Hash. 3ᵃ (ref. to Num. XXI, 1) מה ש׳ שמע וכ׳ what was the report he heard? He heard that Aaron was dead. Ib. 18ᵇ שבו באת ש׳ וכ׳ on it (the fifth of Tebeth) came the report to the captivity that the city was taken (Ez. XXXIII, 21); עשו יום ש׳ וכ׳ they observed mourning on the day they heard the news, as they would have done on the day when the Temple was burnt. Keth. 62ᵃ ש׳ דבית המקדש the news of the destruction of the Temple. M. Kat. 20ᵇ, a. fr. ש׳ רחוקה the news of the death of a relative received after thirty days from the time of death; ש׳ קרובה news received within thirty days. Snh. 110ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. שְׁמוּעוֹת. Ber. IX, 2, v. בְּשׂוֹרָה. M. Kat. 26ᵃ ש׳ הרעות bad news; a. v. fr. —2) tradition, traditional decision, legal discussion (הֲלָכָה). Ib. 23ᵃ אין אומרים ש׳ והגדה וכ׳ you must not speak of legal subjects or homiletical interpretations in the house of mourning. Snh. 88ᵃ הוא אומר מפי הש׳ if he says, I gave my decision on the basis of a tradition, opp. כך הוא בעיני it is my own opinion. Eduy. V, 7 אני עמדתי בשְׁמוּעָתִי … בשְׁמוּעָתָן I stood by my tradition, and they by theirs. Erub. 64ᵃ כל האומר ש׳ זו וכ׳ he who says, this traditional decision is good, the other is not &c. Men. 18ᵃ כמדומה אני שלא כיווננו שְׁמוּעָתֵינוּ וכ׳ it seems to me that until now our traditions did not correspond; Tosef. Zeb. II, 17 שמועתן (corr. acc.); a. fr.—Pl. as ab. Ḥag. 14ᵃ גבור בעל ש׳ ‘a mighty man’ (Is. III, 2) that means a man knowing many legal traditions.—[שְׁמוּעָה in Chald. dict., v. next w.]