חַבְרָא, friend, neighbor, fellow-being &c. Targ. Prov. X, 24 (h. text רַע!); a. fr. [Targ. Hos. III, 1 בחבריּה, v. חַמְרָא I.]—B. Bath. 28ᵇ, a. fr. חַבְרָךְ ח׳ אית ליה וכ׳ thy friend has a friend, and thy friend’s friend has a friend (you cannot claim ignorance). Sabb. 31ᵃ דעלך סני לחברך וכ׳ do not unto thy neighbor what would be hateful to thee; a. v. fr.—Pl. חַבְרִין, חַבְרֵי. Targ. Jud. XIV, 11; a. fr.—B. Bath. 16ᵇ אי חברא כח׳ דאיוב וכ׳ either a friend like those of Job, or death; a. e.—Esp. Ḥaber, a) scholar (v. preced.), fellow-student; b) member of an order. Bets. 25ᵃ חַבְרִין our fellow-student (Rab Ḥisda); בר ח׳ the son of &c. (Rab Huna).—Y. Taan. I, 64ᶜ ר׳ חנניא חֲבֵרְהוֹן וכ׳ R. H. the ‘Fellow of the Rabbis’.—Pl. חַבְרַיָּיא, חֲבֵרִין, חַבְרִין. Targ. Job XII, 2. Ib. XL, 30 Ms. (ed. חַכִּימַיָּא). Nidd. 6ᵇ ח׳ מדכן וכ׳ the Ḥăberim observe &c., v. דְּכִי. Ḥull. 12ᵇ אושעי׳ זעירא דמן ח׳ O. junior, of the Ḥabẹrim (Tosaf.: of Ḥabaria, pr. n. pl.); Taan. 24ᵃ. Gen. R. s. 13, end אבימי מן ח׳ וכ׳ A., one of the Ḥ., visited a sick person, v. חֲבוּרְתָּא.—Fem. חֲבֶרְתָּא, חֲבֶירְ׳. Targ. Ps. CX, 1 (v. Ber. 48ᵇ quot. s. v. חָבֵר fem.). Targ. O. Ex. XI, 2; a. e.—Yeb. 63ᵇ (prov.) בחֲבֶרְתָּה ולא בסילתא correcting a bad wife by giving her a rival will be more effective than thorns; a. fr.—Pl.חֲבֵרָתָא, חֲבֵי׳. Targ. Jud. XI, 37, sq. [בית חבירתא, v. ביתרתה.]
