אבר

See also: אבֿר

Hebrew edit

Root
א־ב־ר (ʾ-b-r)

אֵבֶר • ('éver) m [pattern: קֵטֶל]

limb, organ
- a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Ohalot 7:6:
  הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁהִיא מַקְשָׁה לֵילֵד, מְחַתְּכִין אֶת הַוָּלָד בְּמֵעֶיהָ וּמוֹצִיאִין אוֹתוֹ אֵבָרִים אֵבָרִים, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁחַיֶּיהָ קוֹדְמִין לְחַיָּיו
  Ha-ishá she-hi maqshá leyléd, m'ḥatkhín et ha-valád b-me'éha u-motzi'ín otó evarím evarím, mipné she-ḥayyéha qodmín l-ḥayyáv.
  When a woman is having difficulty in childbirth, they cut up the fetus within her belly and remove it limb by limb, because her life comes before its life.

- a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Shekalim 22b:
  מָה אֵבֶר מִן הַחַי אָסוּר — אַף דָּם מִן הַחַי אָסוּר.
  Mah éver min ha-ḥai asúr, af dam min ha-ḥai asúr.
  Just as the limb of a living animal is forbidden, so too the blood of a living animal is forbidden.
(literary) pinion, wing
- Tanach, Psalms 55:6, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
  וָאֹמַר מִי־יִתֶּן־לִי אֵבֶר כַּיּוֹנָה אָעוּפָה וְאֶשְׁכֹּנָה׃
  va-omár mi yitén li éver ka-yoná, a'úfa v-eshkóna
  And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.
(colloquial) penis
- a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 107a:
  אֵבָר קָטָן יֵשׁ בָּאָדָם מַשְׂבִּיעוֹ רָעָב וּמַרְעִיבוֹ שָׂבַע
  Éver qatán yesh ba-adám masbi'-o ra'áv u-mar'iv-o savá'.
  A little organ there is in a man, where when he feeds it, it starves, but when he starves it, it is fed.