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ספק   vb. a/a  to be sufficient


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  to be sufficient  PTA, CPA, Sam, Syr, JBA, LJLA.  TgJ 1K5:13tos : הען ותורין יתנכסון להון היספקון להון  if small cattle and oxen are slaughtered for you will they be sufficient for you?.  TN Num11:22 : הא ע{מ}<נ>יה ותורייה אין מתנכס להון הא ספק להון.  PJ Lev25:21 : ותעבד ית עללתא דתיספוק לתלת שנין  you should prepared the produce to be sufficient for three years. w. infin. : to have enough to ..., to finish off to sufficiency  JLAtg, LJLA.  TgO Gen24:22 : וַהֲוָה כַד סְפִיקוּ גַמלַיָא לְמִשתֵי  when the camels had had enough to drink.  PJ Gen24:22 . to be able  Syr, JBA, LJLA.  TgJob37:23 : שדי לא ספקנא למשתעי סוגעי חילך  Shaddai, I am unable to proclaim the enormity of Your might.


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  to provide a sufficient amount, supply (see also s.v. pay/wcel)  JLAtg, Gal, Sam, LJLA.  TgJ Is40:16 : וְאִילָנֵי לִבנָן לָא יְסַפְקֻון לְאַדלָקָא  The trees of Lebanon will not be able to provide sufficiently.  PJ Lev14:30 : מן מה דמספקא ידיה  from whatever his possessions provide. to have a sufficient amount  JLAtg.  TgO Gen24:19 : עַד דִיסַפְקֻון לְמִשתֵי  until they have enough to drink [though this probably an error for peal, see above].


Gt View a KWIC


  to be able  Syr, LJLA.  PJ Num4:18 : לא תסתפקון לשיצאה ית שיבטא דגניסת קהת  you shall not be able to save Kohat’s extended family †.


polel, pay/wcel View a KWIC
said of the provider  JLAtg, LJLA.  TgO Deut2:7 : סוֹפֵיק  He provided your needs in the desert land.  PJ Deut2:7 . said of the inanimate source  JLAtg.  TgJ Hos9:2 : מֵאִידְרָא וֻמִמַעַצרָא לָא יִתזָנוּן וְחַמרָא לָא יְסוֹפֵיק לְהוֹן  from the threshing floor and the winepress they shall not be provided for and the wine it will not provide sufficiently for them.

In correct JLA usage there does seem to be a distinction between the paccel and the pay/wcel: The former means to provide from ones own substance; the latter to provide using something else.
  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 386b; DJBA: 827b; Jastrow: 1016; Levy Ch-W: 2:181; Tal Sam: 605a; Cook,Qumran: 249;

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Derivatives:

swpqn, swpqnˀ (sup̄qān, sup̄qānā) n.m.   sufficiency; leisure
sypwq, sypwqˀ (sippūq, sippūqā) v.n.D   provisions
spyq, spyqˀ n.m.   opportunity
spyq (sp̄īq) adj.   empty; enough
spq (sāp̄eq) adj.   able; sufficient

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