The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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חְוַרְוָרִין‏ n.m.pl.t. glaucoma

whiteness in the eye, glaucoma Syr, LJLA. PJ Gen19:11 : וית גוברייא דבתרע ביתא מחו בחוורווריא מטלייא ועד סבא‏ they struck the men who were at the house's gate with glaucoma, from lad to elder.

Page refs. in other dictionaries: Jastrow: 452; Levy Ch-W: 1:244;

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ḥbrbr vb. to make blind

ḥbrbryn, ḥbrbryˀ n.m.pl.t. blindness