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אַבְזָקָה (avzakáf (singular construct אַבְזָקַת־)

  1. breaking, crumbling, corrosion
  2. a foot disease in animals believed to arise from vermin in consequence of a stroke of lightning
  3. moth-eaten condition of garments

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References edit

  • Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons