שִׁחֲרֵר, שִׁי׳ (חָרַר II) to set free, emancipate. Y. Yeb. VIII, 8ᵃ top העושה עבדו … שִׁיחֲרָרוֹ מְשֹׁוחֲרָר if a man mortgages his slave and then sells him, he is not sold; if he sets him free, he is free. Gitt. IV, 4 עבד … ושחררו וכ׳ if a master mortgages his slave and sets him free …, we force the mortgagee to make him a freedman, but he (the slave) writes a note on his value; ib. אינו כותב אלא מְשַׁחֲרָרוֹ none but him who set him free has to write the note of indebtedness. Ib. 40ᵇ מי שחררו which of them (the mortgager or the mortgagee) set him free? Ber. 47ᵇ ש׳ עבדו וכ׳ declared his slave free and made him serve to complete the number of ten persons (required for prayers). Ib., a. e. כל המְשַׁחֲרֵר עבדו וכ׳ whoever sets his slave free, violates a positive command; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְשֹׁוחֲרָר; f. מְשֹׁוחֲרָרָה, מְשֹׁוחֲרֶרֶת &c. Gitt. IV, 4; Y. Yeb. l. c., v. supra; a. fr.—Ib. VIII, 9ᶜ top (play on שחרים, I Chr. VIII, 8) זה בועז שהיה מש׳ מן וכ׳ that is Boaz who was free from sins; Ruth R. to I, 21 (Par. 4); (Yalk. Chr. 1077 שנשתחרר).
Hithpa. - הִשְׁתַּחֲרֵר,
Nithpa. - נִשְׁתַּחֲרֵר to be set free. Yalk. l. c. Keth. III, 1 שנִשְׁתַּחֲרָרוּ who were set free. Gitt. 43ᵃ חציה … ונִשְׁתַּחֲרָרָה a woman that is half a slave and half free, who was betrothed to R., and then was set entirely free &c.; a. fr.