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pwty, pwtyˀ (*pŭṯē, puṯyā) n.m. width
1
width, breadth
Qumran, JLAtg, CPA, Syr, JBA, Man, LJLA
GenApoc 11.11↗ והלכת בארעא לאורכהא ולפותיהא̇‏ : I walked the length and breadth of the land ; QumNJ 5:1:1:4↗ פותי אמין מא[ה‏ : width of a hundred cubits ; TgO Gen6:15↗ חַמשִין אַמִין פֻתיַה וֻתלָתִין אַמִין רוּמַה‏ ; JulSok 39(16):4↗ ܦܘܬ‍<‍ܝ‍>‍ܐ ܕܡ̈ܠܐ ܕܐܝܕܥܬܟ‏ : the extent of your wise words ; JSBhom 71day7 2862↗ ܘܗܽܘ ܡܸܢܝܵܢܵܐ ܥܵܒܸܕ ܐܽܘܪܟܵܐ ܘܦܽܘܬܝܵܐ ܠܲܐܪܥܵܐ‏ : that number creates length and breadth for the earth ; BT Ber 54b(38)↗ כיון דפותייה ורומיה כהדדי נינהו משום הכי {נ}<א>יבלעה {{נ}}^א^יבלועי‏ : because the width and the height (of Jericho's walls) were identical, because of that they were totally swallowed up ; PJ Gen13:17↗ ועיבד בה חזקתא לארכא ולפתיא‏ : and take possession of it by length and by width ; PJ Ex27:13↗ ופותיא דדרתא לרוח קידומא מדינחא‏ : the width of the court toward the east
2
broad area, plaza [calque BH רחוב?]
LJLA
TgJob29:7↗ בפלטיא בפתאה אתקין מותבי‏ : in the plaza, in its broad area (doublet?!), I shall set my seat ; TgLam4:18↗ צדו שבילנא מלמהך בפתינא‏ : [=MT צָדוּ צְעָדֵינוּ מִלֶּכֶת בִּרְחֹבֹתֵינוּ]
(1)
broad area of a body part
JLAtg, LJLA
TgO Gen32:26↗ וֻקרֵיב בִפתֵי יִרכֵיה‏ ; PJ Gen32:26↗ text not cited
(2)
בפותיא : at one's ease
CPA
CPA Psalms118:45↗ ܗܘܬ݁ ܡܗܠܝܟ ܒܦܘܬ݁ܝܐ‏
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JLAtg const פְתֵי , emph. פֻותיָא ; the pl. const. is based rather on the form pty v.n. פְתָאֵי
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In LJLA many of the examples are spelled defectively, and although one must assume that in many cases the JLA form פותיא underlies, in many it might also be the BA form פתיא; see s.v. pty n. The lemma of the CPA form spelled with waw is similarly uncertain.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1176[615]DJBA: 894bJastrow: 1149Drower/Macuch: 369bPayne-Smith ~: 3333J. Payne-Smith: 470DCPA[Schulthess]: 326[165]

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