גֵּו ², (= h. קֶרֶב) belly; innermost. Targ. Ex. XXIX, 13; a. e. Targ. Prov. XXVI, 24. Targ. O. Deut. III, 16 (h. text תּוֹךְ); a. fr.—Sabb. 152ᵇ לגַוֵּיה דביתא (insert וליזול) and go home. Cant. R. to IV, 8 like the hen דמנערא גפה מגווא קטמא (read מִגּוֹא) that shakes her wings off (rising) from between the ashes (Gen. R. s. 75 beg. מן קיטמא). Cant. R. to I, 7 יומא דהוה קאים בגַוֵּיה the day on which he stood, i.e. that every day; a. fr.—Pl. גַּוַּיָּא. Targ. Prov. XX, 27 (ed. Lag. גַּוַּיָּיה).
גֵּו ², (with or without ב) among, amid; in, into. Targ. Ex. XIV, 22; a. fr.—Y. Peah VIII, 20ᵈ bot. מן גּוֹא לפסא out of the pot. Ḥull. 41ᵃ אית ליה שותפות בגַוָּהּ he owns a share in it. Ib. 48ᵇ קופא לגֵיו if the head of the pin is towards the inside. Lev. R. s. 12 את מפני מלגאו … מלבר pour thou out from inside (the hole), and I shall drink from outside. B. Mets. 53ᵇ sq., v. בַּר I ch. a. חוּמְשָׁא.—Pes. 110ᵇ אתית לגו, אתית לגאו I have come among (you). Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵇ; Y. Kil. IX, 32ᶜ bot. גוא ארעא וכ׳ in a unclean land. Y. Keth. l. c.ᵃ bot.; Y. Kil. l. c.ᵇ bot. (גובני) גו בני in the bath-house. Y. Ned. IX, 41ᵇ bot. גו שמשא in the sun (in sunlight); a. v. fr.—מן גו, מִגּוֹ, מִיגּוֹbecause, in consequence of. Y. Taan. II, 65ᵇ, v. בּוּךְ. Y. Ber. I, 3ᵇ top מן גו דאינון ציבחר because they are brief.—B. Mets. 39ᵇ מיגו דמוקמינן וכ׳ since we have to appoint a guardian for &c. Ib. 5ᵇ, a. fr. מ׳ דחשיד אממונא וכ׳ since he is suspected of wrong-doing in money matters, he is also suspected of swearing falsely; a. fr.—Hence מִיגּוֹ, מִגּוֹMiggo, 1) (= h. מִתּוֹךְ, Shebu. 45ᵇ, and מֵאַחַר, v. אַחַר) a legal rule according to which a deponent’s statement is accepted as true on the ground that, if he had intended to tell a lie, he might have invented one more advantageous to his case (cmp. B. Bath. 31ᵃ מה לו לשקר אי בעי וכ׳ why should he lie? If he wanted to lie, he might have said &c.). Keth. 16ᵃ התם מאי מ׳ איכא what miggo is there in that case, i.e. what choice did she have in inventing a statement, if she intended to tell a lie? Ib. מכדי האי מ׳ והאי מ׳ וכ׳ since in this case there is the legal presumption of a miggo, and so is in the other, what is the difference between the one miggo and the other?; a. fr.—2) (cmp. אַגַּב) an action declared valid because one part of it was indisputably legitimate, or because the legal status required for its legitimacy might easily have been obtained. B. Mets. 9ᵇ מ׳ דאי בעי מפקר וכ׳ since, if he wanted, he might have declared his possession public property, in which case he would have obtained the legal status of poverty entitling him to the corner of the field (פֵּאָה), and since (if he had resigned his property) he would have been entitled to take possession of the corner for himself, he has a right also to take possession of it in behalf of his neighbor. Ib. תרי מ׳ לא אמרינן two miggos cannot be accepted, i.e. two conditions required to make an action legitimate cannot be dispensed with. Ib. 8ᵃ. Ned. 88ᵇ; a. e.
