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דילטור   adj.  obnoxious, corrupting


  obnoxious, corrupting  LJLA.  TgJob15:34 : סיעת דילטור  a group of corruption [MT עֲדַת חָנֵף].  TgJob36:13 : וזהוהי לבא ודילטורי לבא  the arrogant and corrupt-hearted ones.

Latin delator "informer", or the like; for the argument for distinguishing this from dlṭwr see discussion Levy s.v.; but we are obviously not absolutely convinced of the distinction. The word is normally used to render Biblical חנף even though there is a perfectly good Aramaic cognate available. The reference would seem to be not just to pagans but to those aggressively so. See TargJob 15:35, which describes the band of such people as speakers of falsehood and deceit. As pointed out by R. Weiss (The Aramaic Targum of Job [1979]) p. 80, the basis of the usage would appear to be the Rabbinic Hebrew text of Midrash Breshit Rabba: התחיל אומר דילטוריה לבוראו.
  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: Levy Ch-W: 1:177;

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