*לַמָּס (מָסַס) unto him who refuses (used homiletically as an independent word, meaning in Greek) dog. Sabb. 63ᵇ (ref. to Job VI, 14, v. Targ. a. l.) שכן בל"י קורין לכלב ל׳ for in Greek they call a dog lms (?). [The sentence is an interpolated gloss, v. Y. B. Kam. VII, end, 6ᵃ; Keth. 96ᵃ; Gen. R. s. 76, end. The interpolator may have had in mind λοιμός ‘a plague’, used as adj. in LXX for בליעל.]
לַמָּס
Gloss
* לַמָּס ( מָסַס ) unto him who refuses (used homiletically as an independent word, meaning in Greek) dog . Sabb. 63ᵇ (ref. to Job VI, 14 , v. Targ.…
References
- Jastrow, מָסַס 1
- Shabbat 63b:1
- Job 6:14
- Jerusalem Talmud Bava Kamma 7:7:5
- Ketubot 96a:6
- Bereishit Rabbah 76:9
- Jastrow, בְּלִיַּעַל 1