Jastrow: תְּמוּרָה

תְּמוּרָה f. (b. h.; מוּר) exchange, substitution. Snh. 22ᵃ לכל יש ת׳ there is a substitute for every thing (every loss can be retrieved), except for the wife of one’s youth. Ned. 20ᵇ בני ת׳ children begotten in exchange, e.g. if a man has two wives, and has connection with one mistaking her for the other. Pesik. R. s. 40 תְּמוּרָתוֹ של שם (not תא׳) a substitute of Shem (as priest).—Esp. exchange of one sacrificial animal for another (Lev. XXVII, 10), that for which an animal is exchanged. Tem. I, 1 אף ת׳ בבית וכ׳ so the change is valid only when made on the owner’s premises. Ib. 2 (ref. to Lev. l. c.) מה הוא מיוחד אף תְּמוּרָתוֹ מיוחדת as ‘it’ refers to one, so its exchange can be only one. Ib. II, 3 ואין ת׳ עושה ת׳ that for which it is exchanged cannot effect another exchange (does not affect the status of another animal exchanged for it). Ib. I, 5 הולד עושה ת׳ the animal’s child (born after the mother was dedicated) makes exchange (affects the status of one exchanged for it). Bekh. 15ᵇ תְּמוּרַת בעלי מומין that which is exchanged for blemished animals. Ib. 61ᵃ טעות מעשר ת׳ הויא a mistake in counting the tenth animal for tithes is an exchange, i.e. the animal marked as the tenth by mistake is sacred. Ib. תמורת מעשר מתה that which has been marked as the tenth by mistake must be put to death (cannot be used); a. fr.—Pl. תְּמוּרוֹת. Tem. III, 1 אלו … ותְמוּרוֹתֵיהֶן כיוצא בהן these are the sacred animals whose embryos and whose exchanges are of the same sacred character as themselves. Esth. R. to I, 1 (expl. בני אמוריא) ת׳ של אבותיהן the exchanges (hostages) of their fathers, v. עָרַב I; a. fr.—T’murah, name of a treatise, of the Order of Ḳodashim, of Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud Babli.