Jastrow: שׁוּק III

שׁוּק III m. (b. h.; v. שׁוּק I) [meeting place,] market, street. Gen. R. s. 91 ש׳ של זונות the place where harlots meet. Pes. 110ᵃ בזמן שלא ראה פני הש׳ if he has not seen the open, i.e. if he has not been in the open air between one cup and the other. B. Kam. 115ᵃ תקנת הש׳ the market ordinance (that he who buys a stolen object publicly has a right to his purchasing money on restoring the object). Yeb. 53ᵃ התרת יבמה לש׳ making a y’bamah permitted to all the world, i.e. freeing a woman from her dependence on her brother-in-law. Ib. 98ᵇ פגע ביבמה לש׳ he might (on marrying her) strike on a ‘y’bamah abroad’, i.e. on one bound to another man as her yabam; a. v. fr.—Num. R. s. 2018, a. e. בעל הש׳ market commissioner.—Pl. שְׁוָוקִים, שְׁוָוקִין, שְׁוָקִ׳. Ib.17 (expl. קרית חצות, Num. XXII, 39) שעשה ש׳ של וכ׳ he arranged commercial markets. Sabb. 33ᵇ תקנו ש׳ וכ׳ they (the Romans in Palestine) made markets to place harlots there; Ab. Zar. 2ᵇ. Tosef. Makhsh. III, 8 הבאין מבית הש׳ that are brought back from the market houses; a. fr.—Constr. שׁוּקֵי. Erub. 29ᵃ, a. e. הריני … בש׳ טבריא I am (to-day) as bright as Ben ʿAzzai was in the meeting places of Tiberias; a. fr.