The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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סמֵי‏ n.m./adj. blind person

blind, blind person JLAtg, Gal, PTA, CPA, Sam, Syr, JBA, Man, LJLA. TgJ Is43:8 : דְאִנוּן כִסמַן וְעַינִין לְהוֹן‏ who are like blind people while having eyes. TN Deut28:29 : היך מה דממשש סמייה בהבלייה‏ . PJ Deut27:18 : ליט די יטעי אכסניא באורחא דהוא מדמי לסמיא‏ cursed by one who misleads the stranger on the way, for he is like the blind man.

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 381a; DJBA: 818b; Jastrow: 999; Levy Ch-W: 2:170; Tal Sam: 595b;

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Derivatives:

syymw n.f. blindness

smyw, smywtˀ (samyū, samyūṯā) n.f. blindness