Jastrow: תְּבוּסָה

תְּבוּסָה f. (בּוּס, v. Ez. XVI, 22) 1) weltering; דם ת׳ the blood flowing out of a dying body, which is partly live blood (levitically clean) and partly dead blood (levitically unclean), mixed blood. Ohol. II, 2 רביעית דם ורביעית דם ת׳ one fourth (of a Log) of blood (of a dead body), and one fourth of mixed blood (make unclean). Ib. III, 5 איזהו דם ת׳ המת וכ׳ what is dam t’busah? The blood of a dead body of which one eighth (of a Log) flowed out while it was yet alive, and one eighth after death; ib. איזהו דם ת׳ צלוב וכ׳ what is dam t’busah? The blood of an impaled body which flowed uninterruptedly (v. שָׁתַת) &c. Tosef. Meg. I, 10 אין בין דם המת לדם ת׳ וכ׳ there is no legal difference between the blood of a dead man and that of a dying man, except &c.; Tosef. Ohol. IV, 12; a. e. —2) pressing, the ground which is pressed by a body in the grave, and which is considered the dead man’s property. Naz. IX, 3 (64ᵇ) המוצא … נוטלו ואת תְּבוּסָתוֹ (Bab. ed. תְּפוּסָתוֹ; Y. ed. תְּפוּשָׂ׳) if one finds in his field a body in the usual position of a buried man, the first time, he may remove it with the ground which it occupies (for burial in another place); מצא שנים … ואת תְּבוּסָתָן (Bab. ed. תפוס׳; Y. ed. תפוש׳) if he finds two, he may still remove them and their ground; Ohol. XVI, 3 תב׳; B. Bath. 101ᵇ sq. תב׳ Ms. H. a. Ar. (ed. תפ׳); Y. ib. V, beg. 15ᵃ, expl. עד שלש וכ׳ up to three fingers’ lengths of the ground, as far as the serial secretion penetrates. Naz. 65ᵃ אין לו ת׳ has no right of t’busah (t’fusah), i.e. the ground does not belong to the body. Ib. וכמה שיעור ת׳ how large is the quantity of the dead man’s ground?; a. e.