Pĕsikta dĕ-Rab Kahăna: R. Kahana's Compilation of Discourses for Sabbaths and Festal Days (JPS Classic Reissues)

PLAYS ON WORDS AND LETTERS

785 PLAYS ON WORDS AND LETTERS ‘ad=“in eternity” (‘ad=“the Eternal”) 1.1 n9 ‘ad=“unto” (‘ed=“witness”) 24.15 n46 ’Adon=“lord” (’Adn, ’Adm=“man”) 4.3 n44 ’af=“nose” (’af=“also”) 16.11 ’afes=“cease” (Greek apheis=“let go”) 17.1 ’ahot=“sister” (’ahuy=“akin” or “stitched together”) 5.6 n32 ‘akarah=“barren” (‘akurah=“uprooted”) 20.2 ‘alil=“crucible” (‘olal=“young child”) 4.2 n12 ‘alilot=“deeds” (‘olelot=“gleanings”) 21.3 n8 Allon (Greek allon=“another occasion”) 3.1 ’amahot=“maidservants” (’immahot=“Matriarchs”) 16.1 n10 Amalek (‘am =“people”+yelek=“locust”) 3.8 (‘am=“people”+lak=“lick”) ’ammi=“My people” (‘immi=“with Me”) 16.8 n37 Amos (‘amus=“tongue-heavy”) 16.4 ‘anah=“spoke” (‘anah=“answered”) 5.9 ‘ani=“afflicted” (‘ani=“poor”) 27.3 n14 ‘arbe=“willows” (‘arabot=“skies”) 27.9 n39 ‘aru=“raze” (‘aru=“empty”) 3.7 n48 ‘aru=“toss” (‘ar‘er=“razed”) 18.2 (te‘ar=“emptied”) 20.2 ‘Aceret (‘acar=“draw near”) 28.8 Asir (’asurim=“in prison”) 24.11 ’asisot=“dainties” (’issot=“fires”; me’ussasot=“closely reasoned and precisely expressed”) 12.3 ‘awwer=“tithe” (’asser=“prosper”) 10.10 n36 ’ay (l’y, le-’ay=“go softly”) 6.2 n36 ’ata’=“come” (Aramaic ’ata’=“sign”) 12.22 n67 (’ot=“stood out”) S1.16 n52 786 PLAYS ON WORDS AND LETTERS ‘awon=“iniquity” (‘awon=“affliction”) 3.1 (‘ayin=“balance”) 25.2 n8 ’ayyekkah=“where art thou?” (’ayka, ’ykh, ’eykah=“how?”) 15.1 n3 ba=“in” (ba’=“is come”) 12.11 n38 12.18 bakkosarot (beli=“weeping”+sirot=“song”) 2.4 banot=“daughters” (bnh=“build”) 12.1 n2 bdrk=“away” (bd’rky =“records or archives”) 3.10 n54 Beeri (be’erah=“he of her well”) 24.9 beralah=“blessing” (berelah=“pool”) S1.6 bl=“in Thee” (bet 2+kaf 20=22 letters in Hebrew alphabet) 22.2 28.9 bmlhmwt tnwfh=“battles of wielding” (bmlhmwt tnwfh=“bread of waving”) 8.4 n32 dam=“blood” (adamah=“ground”) 26.4 n36 darban=“goad” (madir binah=“impresses obedience”) 23.7 Darda‘=(dor=“generation”+de‘ah=“knowledge”) 4.3 debarim=“things” (dabbarim=“men whose words are eloquent”) 24.18 n51 dibaba=“fly” (debaba=“enemy”) S3.2 n6 dibre=“words” (deber=“pestilence”) (debari=“My word”) (debaray=“My words”) 13.8 (dabray=“as to leading”) 13.9 dml=“thy blood” (dmyl=“thy bloods”) 3.16 n68 ‘dr=“lack” (‘dr=“flock” or “band”) 5.9 n82 drwlmsyy’=“wrought destruction” (Greek dorilfpsia=“capture by spear” or dorialosia=“capture by storm”) 7.11 n44 dwdy=“my beloved” (Greek deui=“come hither”+ Theos=“God”) 5.8 ’eben=“gemstone” (’eben=“weight”) 3.4 n37 ’el=“out of” (’al=“without”) 8.2 n20 PLAYS ON WORDS AND LETTERS 787 Eleazar (’el ‘ozer=“unto God who helps”) 4.9 (’el ’ozer=“God’s adjutant”) 4.10 Eliezer (’alef 1+lamed 30+yod 10+’ayin 70+ zayin 7+res 200=318 men) 8.2 n23 ’emune=“faithful” (minyan=“count”+ ne’eman=“faithful”) 11.13 n46 ’esma‘=“I understood” (’asmia‘=“I make myself understood in”) 4.3 ’ewwa’=“lift up” (’essa’ or ’ewwah=“bent low”) 11.14 n49 ’fsy=“ends of” (’fsy=“those who have come to naught in . . .” or “those who have been gathered into [the earth]”) 1.4 n37 gab=“eminence” (gbh=“collect, impose, or visit punishment for sin”) 3.2 n32 Gallim (gallim=“waves”; golim=“wanderers”) 13.1 n2, 3 gemul=“good deed” (gamul=“child weaned from milk”) 9.2 n20 g’l (gw’l=“fullness of the Redeemer’s power”) 25.1 n5 gnni=“my garden” (ginuni=“my bride’s bower”) 1.1 goy=“nation” (goy=“heathen”) 28.c n8 28.1 n21 hadar=“ethrog” (had-dar=“dwells”; Greek hydor=“water”) 27.8 hadar=“the tree ‘hadar’ “ (hadarta=“thou shalt honor”) 27.9 Hadrak (had=“rough”+ral=“soft”) 20.7 n11 hali=“is not” (hali=“hawking”) 3.11 n56 halloti=“my weakness” (hillah=“to entreat”) 17.2 n10 (hll=“to profane”) 17.2 n12 hamussim=“armed” (hamissah=“five”) 11.11 n32 hannot=“be gracious” (hanah=“encamp”) 17.1 n8 harim=“mountains” (horim=“Sanhedrin whose decisions instruct men as to what is just”) 5.7 n38 harpu=“let go” (heref ‘ayin=“wink of an eye”) 24.12 n42 ’hby=“him that loves Me” (’alef, [’]hby=Abraham; he’, [h]nh=Isaac; bet, [b]et=Jacob; yod, w[y]dy=Moses) S1.20 788 PLAYS ON WORDS AND LETTERS hds=“month” (hds=“new”) 5.11 n95 he’ebalti=“caused to mourn” (heybalti=“caused to go down”) 9.1...