Jastrow: שָׁמַט

שָׁמַט (b. h.; cmp. מוּט) to slip; (act. verb) to loosen, detach; to carry off, steal. Num. R. s. 420 (ref. to II Sam. VI, 6) למה שָׁמְטוּ why did they slip (turn off)? M. Kat. 24ᵃ שמטו חזירים וכ׳ swine dragged his body off. Y. Ber. III, 5ᵈ bot., a. e. שׁוֹמֵט וכ׳, v. קְלִבִּנְטִירִין. Ib. מטה … שׁוֹמְטָן ודיו in the case of a bed the poles of which are movable, one (in mourning) detaches them, and that is sufficient; Y. Ned. VII, end, 40ᶜ שומטו (corr. acc.). B. Mets. 104ᵃ שׁוֹמְטוֹ מעל גבי בניו he may take it (the pledge) from the back of his (the debtor’s) sons. Ex. R. s. 43 והם שׁוֹמְטִים וכ׳, v. טֶטְרָאמוּלִי. Y. Keth. V, 30ᵇ היתה שׁוֹמֶטֶת עצמה וכ׳ she slipped away from under him; Sot. 9ᵇ נִשְׁמְטָה (Nif.). Gen. R. s. 14 שׁוֹמְטָהּ, v. צָרַר I. Pesik. R. s. 20 נִשְׁמוֹט אותה let us abandon her (that she may not find her way home); מיד שְׁמָטוּהָ (not שמוטה) and so they abandoned her. Lev. R. s. 34 יִשְׁמוֹט, v. חָלַץ. Gen. R. s. 20 שומט גידין וכ׳ it (the serpent) draws out fibres (v. גִּיד) and eats them. Midr. Till. to Ps. CXIV (ref. to Deut. IV, 34 גוי מקרב גוי) כאדם ששומט את העובר וכ׳ as a man draws an embryo out of its mother’s womb. Ib. למדנו צער לנִשְׁמָט לשומט מנין we learn here that there was pain for the body drawn out (Israel), whence do we learn that it was painful for him that drew out (for the Lord who redeemed them)?; a. fr.—Part. pass. שָׁמוּט; f. שְׁמוּטָה. Ḥull. 54ᵃ ש׳ ושחוטה וכ׳ if the trachea was found detached, yet cut through, the animal is kasher; שא"א לש׳ וכ׳ for it is impossible that a loose trachea should be cut through (therefore the detachment must have taken place after the ritual cutting). Ib. 57ᵃ, a. e. שְׁמוּטַת ורך an animal with a dislocated thigh-bone; שמוטת וד with a dislocated foreleg; a. e.—V. שָׁמוּט.