בְּזַק, —Pa. בַּזֵּק to cast (or shoot) a mass of fragments (as from a catapult). Snh. 108ᵇ ב׳ בהון עפרא וכ׳ Ar. (ed. והוה שדינן) he shot at them with dust and it turned into swords &c. *B. Bath. 73ᵃ והוה כי מבזק ארבעין גירוי דברזלא and there was a flash as if one shot forty arrows of iron (v. Koh. Ar. Compl. s. v. בזק, note 5).—Ed. כי מבזר ארב׳ גריוי דחרדלא like one scattering forty measures of mustard [from a confusion of which two versions the variants in Mss. a. in Ar. arose, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note.—Ar. כמיבזק Ithpe.].