Study Rosh Hashanah folio 26B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
So-and-so keva’a from me. Levi did not understand what that man was saying to him, as he did not know the meaning of the word kava. So he went and asked in the study hall. They said to him: That man said to you: He robbed me, as it is written: “Will a man rob [hayikba] God?” (Malachi 3:8). Rava
The Talmud continues its discussion of unusual words: The rabbis did not know the meaning of the word seirugin, which is found in a Mishnah. One day they heard the female slave in R' Yehuda HaNasi’s house say to the rabbis whom she saw entering the house not all at once, but intermittently: How lon
It is similarly recounted that the rabbis did not know the meaning of the word ḥaloglogot, which is mentioned in various mishnayot and baraitot. One day they heard the female slave in R' Yehuda HaNasi’s house say to a certain man whom she saw scattering his purslane plants: How long shall you scatt
The rabbis also did not know the meaning of the word salseleha in the verse: “Salseleha and it will exalt you” (Proverbs 4:8). One day they heard the female slave in R' Yehuda HaNasi’s house say to a certain man who was curling his hair: How long shall you mesalsel your hair? And from this they und
It is further related that the rabbis did not know the meaning of the words in the verse: “And sweep it [vetetetiha] with the broom [matatei] of destruction” (Isaiah 14:23). One day they heard the female slave in R' Yehuda HaNasi’s house saying to her workmate: Take a broom [tateita] and sweep [ta’a