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  to refuse  JLAtg, Syr.  TgO Gen48:19 : וְסָרֵיב אָבוּהִי‏ . מן‏ + inf. : to refuse to do  Gal, LJLA.  TgProv16:5  †.

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  to refuse  JLAtg, PTA, JBAg, LJLA.  TgJ Jer3:3 : מְסָרַבְת לְאִתכְנָעָא‏  you refuse to be humbled.  TN Gen37:35 .  PJ Gen37:35 : וסריב לקבלא תנחומין‏  but he refused to accept comforting.  PJ Ex4:23 : ומסרב אנת למיפטריה‏  but you refuse to release him. of inanimate  JLAtg.  TgJ Jer15:18 : וֻמַחִתִי תַקִיפָא מְסָרְבָא לְאִיתַסָאָה‏  my wound is severe and refuses to be healed.

  usually w. ˁl : to rebel against  JLAtg, PTA, LJLA.  TgO Gen26:35 : וַהוַאָה מְסָרְבָן וֻמַרגְזָן עַל מֵימַר יִצחָק וְרִבקָה‏  they were rebellious and angered over Isaac and Rebecca's word .  TN Deut1:26 : וסרבתון על פם גזירת ממרה דייי‏  you rebelled against the decree of the Lord's memra.  TgQoh4:15 : דאזלין בטיפשיהון לסרבא על רחבעם ברי‏  who in their stupidity go to rebel against my son Rehoboam. w. qdm : to rebel against God  JLAtg, LJLA.  TgO Deut31:27 : מְסָרְבִין הֲוֵיתוֹן קדם יוי‏ .  PJ Deut9:7 : מסרבין הוויתון קדם ייי‏ .

The LJLA examples in the supposed meaning of "to confound" (see Jastrow) are dubious; all are in texts where the variant סרך would appear to represent the best text; q.v.
  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 388a; DJBA: 829b; Jastrow: 1021; Levy Ch-W: 2:186;

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Derivatives:

srb adj.   disobedient

srbn (sārḇān) adj.   obstinately rebellious

srbnw, srbnwtˀ (sārḇānū, sārḇānūṯā) n.f.   stubbornness

srbny, srbnytˀ (sārḇānī, sārḇānīṯā) n.f.   obstinate woman