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בסס

GenR
בסס 〈bss〉 |basas|

Grammatical information: verb

Further Variants:

ונתבסם - GenR Ox1 Ox2 K | ונתבשס - GenR V

Translation: to base, to establish, to fasten

Translation equivalent: βάσις(Classical Greek)

66,2 [746: 2]

תכנתי עמודיה ונתבסס העולם

I established the pillars of it (Ps 75,4), and the world was put on a firm basis (Freedman / Simon II 602).

= Yalq 811 [466: 60] (נתבסם)

Derived from בסיס 〈bsys〉 |basis|. Used only in piʾel and nitpaʾel. בסיס 〈bsys〉 |basis| is not attested in GenR.

Bibliography:

Krauss, LW II, 162, ab.

How to cite: Art. בסס in: Dictionary of Loanwords in Rabbinic Literature. Eds. Susanne Plietzsch, Christina Katsikadeli, Vladislav Slepoy, Thomas Klampfl. https://lrl.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/basas.html. 2024.