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gzyrh, gzyrtˀ (gzī/ērā, gzīrtā) n.f. something cut off: decree, island, circumcision
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decree
Common Aramaic
Dan 4:14↗ בִּגְזֵרַת עִירִין פִּתְגָמָא‏ : the word is by angelic decree ; SamTgJ Lev3:17↗ גזירת עלם לדריכון בכל מדוריכון‏ : a perpetual decree for your generations in all of your dwelling places ; P StDan(1)4:21 ↗ ܓܙܝܪܬ ܡܪܝܡܐ‏ : the decree of the most high ; JBABowl 2.1:6↗ שמתא וגזירתא ואחרמתא‏ : the excommunication, decree, and ban ; BT Tan 22a(21)↗ גזרי גזירתא מודעי לי ומודענא להו לישראל ובעו רחמי ומבטלי לה‏ : when they made a decree, they would inform me, and I would inform the Jews, and they would pray and abolish it
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deed
Syr
(2)
court oath with an imprecation
JBAg
SSSad 199:26↗ פרעת ליה הלין זוזי בלא שבועתא ולא גזירתא‏ : you paid him back this money without a vow or court oath
2
island
Syr
(1)
Mesopotamia (i.e., the Jezirah)
Syr
MiS 508:B26 ܐܡܠ݂ܟܬ݁ ܕܚܠܬܗ ܥܠ ܓܙܝܪܬܐ ܘܐܪ̈ܡܢܝܐ‏ : fear of him prevailed over the Jezirah and the Armenians ; BAli 2839 text not cited
(2)
partition wall
Syr
P Ez41:12 and passim there↗ ܓܙܝܪܬܐ ܕܒܬܪܥܐ ܡܥܪܒܝܐ‏
(1)
battlement of a wall
Syr
BBah 479:26↗ text not cited
(3)
slab of wood or stone
OfAEg-inf, Syr, JBA
TAD D7.35 11↗ גזירה [٠٠٠‏ : (in an epistolary context of shipped commodities) ; P Je11:16↗ ܕܓܙܝܪܬܐ ܪܒܬܐ‏ ; BT Tam 26b(21)↗ גזרתא דמצטוותא דסלקי בהו למצטוותא‏ : bench slabs upon which one ascends to the bench
3
circumcision
Sam, Man, LJLA
SamTgJ Ex4:26↗ חמיו דמים לגזרתה‏ : [Heb.: חתן דמים למלות] ; JohnBook 199:8↗ gazrin gzurta kḏ iahuṭaiia : they perform circumcision like the Jews ; PJ Gen24:2↗ שוי כדון ידך בגזירת מהולתי‏
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BA גְּזֵרָה
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DJBA divides into two lemmas (for "slab" see p. 276).
In the sense "circumcision" all LJLA examples should probably be emended to גוזרה.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 225[112]DJPA: 125bDJBA: 274bJastrow: 230Drower/Macuch: 86a, 86b, 83aJ. Payne-Smith: 67Levy Ch-W: 1:134Tal Sam: 142aBarBahlul: 479:20; 479:24; 479:26; 479:18Qumran: 44

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