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20 โ[1] ืื ืืื โ sourcils in O. F. โ is one whose eye-brows have their hair long so that they lie over his eyes (Bekhorot 43b)
โ[2] ืื ืืง โ one who has in his eye a membrane which is called โtoileโ (web) in old French The word is similar in meaning to (Isaiah 40:22) โIt is He that stretcheth out the heavens like a web (ืึผึทืึนึผืง) (Bekhorot 48a).
โ[3] ืื ืชืืื โ (from ืืื "to mingle") denotes anything that causes a mingling in the eye, e. g., a white line which extends from the white of the eye and intersects the ืกืืจื (the iris), which is the ring that encloses the black of the eye which is called prunelle in old French This white line intersects the circle and runs into the black (so that the white and the black of the eye mingle). The Targum rendering of ืชืืื is ืืืืื, connected in meaning with ืืืืื (a kind of worm); he translates it thus because that line resembles a worm. Thus, too, the Sages of Israel name it (the while line) among the blemishes of first-born animals: ืืืืื ื ืืฉ ืขืื ื (worm, snake, wart) (cf. Bekhorot 38a,b).
โ[4] ืืจื ืืืืคืช โ These are kinds of boil; ืืจื is identical with ืืจืก (mentioned in Deuteronomy 28:27) โ a boil which is dry both inside and on the surface. ืืืคืช is identical with the Egyptian lichen, (ืืืืืช) (Sifra, Emor, Section 3 15). Why is it called ืืืคืช (root ืืคืช โto embrace")? Because it continues to cling to the body until the day of death. It is wet on the surface and dry inside. In another passage, however, Scripture gives the name ืืจื to a boil which is wet on the surface and dry inside, as it is said (Deuteronomy 28:27) "[The Lord will smite theeโฆ] ืืืืจื ืืืืจืกโ, where ืืจื necessarily denotes a wet boil since ืืจืก (identical with ืืจืฉ, potsherd) denotes the dry species. But the explanation is as follows: ืืจืก always denotes the dry skin disease, ืืืคื always the wet one; as to ืืจื it depends: When Scripture mentions ืืจื together with ืืจืก it is calling a ืืืคืช by the term ,ืืจื and when it mentions it (ืืจื) together with ืืืคืช (as is the case here) it is calling a ืืจืก by the term ืืจื. Thus is it explained in Bekhorot 41a.
โ[5] ืืจืื ืืฉื, according to the Targum, ืืจืก ืคืืืื, which signifies one whose ืคืืืื are ืืจืืกืกืื, i. e., one whose testicles are crushed. ืคืืืื has the same meaning as (Job 40:17) โand the sinews of his stones (ืคืืืื) are wrapped togetherโ.
Version: Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH001969084
License: Public Domain