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אבר

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Hebrew

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Root
א־ב־ר (ʾ-b-r)

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Noun

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אֵבֶר ('éverm [pattern: קֵטֶל]

  1. limb, organ
    • a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Ohalot 7:6:
      הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁהִיא מַקְשָׁה לֵילֵד, מְחַתְּכִין אֶת הַוָּלָד בְּמֵעֶיהָ וּמוֹצִיאִין אוֹתוֹ אֵבָרִים אֵבָרִים, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁחַיֶּיהָ קוֹדְמִין לְחַיָּיו
      Ha-ishá she-hi maqshá leyléd, m'ḥatkhín et ha-valád b-me'éha u-motzi'ín otó evarím evarím, mipné she-ḥayyéha qodmín l-ḥayyáv.
      When a woman is having difficulty in childbirth, they cut up the fetus within her belly and remove it limb by limb, because her life comes before its life.
    • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Shekalim 22b:
      מָה אֵבֶר מִן הַחַי אָסוּר — אַף דָּם מִן הַחַי אָסוּר.
      Mah éver min ha-ḥai asúr, af dam min ha-ḥai asúr.
      Just as the limb of a living animal is forbidden, so too the blood of a living animal is forbidden.
  2. (literary) pinion, wing
    • Tanach, Psalms 55:6, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
      וָאֹמַר מִי־יִתֶּן־לִי אֵבֶר כַּיּוֹנָה אָעוּפָה וְאֶשְׁכֹּנָה׃
      va-omár mi yitén li éver ka-yoná, a'úfa v-eshkóna
      And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.
  3. (colloquial) penis
    • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 107a:
      אֵבָר קָטָן יֵשׁ בָּאָדָם מַשְׂבִּיעוֹ רָעָב וּמַרְעִיבוֹ שָׂבַע
      Éver qatán yesh ba-adám masbi'-o ra'áv u-mar'iv-o savá'.
      A little organ there is in a man, where when he feeds it, it starves, but when he starves it, it is fed.

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