הֲזָמָה, (זמם) the refutation of witnesses by proving an alibi, contrad. to הכחשה counterevidence; the conviction of false witnesses (Deut. XIX, 19). B. Mets. 4ᵃ בתורת ה׳ subject to the law of hăzamah. Keth. 20ᵃ ה׳ שלא בפניהן evidence of an alibi taken in the absence of the witnesses concerned. Macc. 2ᵃ דין ה׳ the punishment for evidence disproved by an alibi (retaliation); a. e.