Jastrow: שׁוּרָה

שׁוּרָה f. (שרר) [chain,] line, row. Y. Yoma VIII, end, 45ᶜ (ref. to יָשֹׁר, Job XXXIII, 27) יעשה ש׳ של אנשים וכ׳ let him form a line of men, and say, I have sinned &c.; (Bab. ib. 87ᵃ צריך לפייסו בשלש שורות וכ׳ must beg his pardon in the presence of three rows of three men each). Ber. III, 2 עד שלא יגיעו לש׳ before they reach the line (of comforters). Snh. 19ᵃ כשהוא עובר בש׳ וכ׳ when he passes in the line to comfort others; וכשהוא עומד בש׳ וכ׳ and when he stands in the line to be comforted; Tosef. ib. IV, 1, sq. Kil. III, 3 ש׳ של ירק אחר a row (in the bed) of a different kind of vegetable. Dem. VII, 8 ש׳ החיצונה the outer row (of wine vessels); a. v. fr.—Trnsf. rule of conduct. Gen. R. s. 93 כהוגן וכש׳, v. הוֹגָן. B. Mets. 73ᵇ נוהג כש׳ he conducts himself properly. Snh. 105ᵇ אהבה מבטלת ש׳ של גדולה love disregards the rule of dignified conduct (causes men to do things ordinarily left to servants); שנאה מבטלת ש׳ וכ׳ so does hatred disregard &c.; Gen. R. s. 55 מקלקלת את הש׳; a. fr.—שׁוּרַת הדין the line of justice, strict law; לפנים מש׳ הדין inside the line of justice, equity, v. דִּין II. Gitt. IV, 4 ש׳ הדין העבד וכ׳ by strict law the hypothecated slave (emancipated by his owner) owes to the mortgagee nothing, but for the sake of social order, we force his second master (the mortgagee) to write a letter of emancipation &c. Mekh. Yithro, ʿAmal., s. 2 (ref. to Ex. XVIII, 20) ואת המעשה זה ש׳ הדין … לפנים מש׳ הדין ‘the deed’, that means strict law, ‘which they shall do’, that means equity; a. fr.—Pl. שׁוּרוֹת. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ top תלמידי … ש׳ ש׳ ככרם the students at college who were arrayed in rows like (the vines in) the vineyard. Kil. IV, 5 שתי ש׳ two rows of vines. Dem. l. c. עשר ש׳ וכ׳ ten rows of ten wine vessels each. Y. Bicc. III, 65ᶜ bot. אב̇ … עושין לו ש׳ וכ׳ when the president enters (college), they must form lines for him, and he passes those which he chooses; (Hor. 13ᵇ שורה אחת מכאן וכ׳ one line on each side). Mekh. B’shall., ʿĂmal., s. 1 העומדים בש׳ המלחמה who stand in the battle lines; a. fr.