חוֹבָה, (חוּב) obligation, duty; (sub. קרבן) obligatory sacrifice, opp. נְדָבָה. Naz. II, 8 הרי אני נזיר ח׳ I am a Nazir by obligation (because the condition of my vow was fulfilled), opp. נזיר נדבה a voluntary nazarite without a conditional vow. Ib. הראשון ח׳ in that case my first nazariteship was obligatory. Kinnim I, 1 הח׳ the obligatory sacrifices, opp. נדרים ונדבות. Ber. 27ᵇ תפלת … רשות או ח׳ is the evening prayer elective or obligatory? Zeb. I, 1 לא עלו … לשם ח׳ they are not accounted to those who offered them as a compliance with the obligation under which they are. Ber. 8ᵇ, a. fr. יוצא … ידי חוֹבָתוֹ has paid his obligation (of reading the Sh’ma). Ib. 20ᵇ, a. fr. אינו מוציא … ידי חוֹבָתָן cannot be the medium through which others pay their obligation (v. חוּב); a. fr. חוֹבַת הגוף, חוֹבַת גברא &c., v. גּוּף, גַּבְרָא &c.—Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵇ bot. פרוש אדע חוֹבָתִי וכ׳ a Pharisee of the class (of those who say), ‘I want to know my obligation, and I will pay it’, expl. הי דא חובתא וכ׳ what wrong have I done that I may do a good act to make up for it.—Pl. חוֹבוֹת. Succ. 56ᵃ, v. רֶגֶל; a. e.—2) condemnation, doom.—Pl. as ab. Midr. Till. to Ps IV, 8 פותחין בח׳ begin with predictions of doom, opp. נחמות. [חוֹבָה Ch., v. חוֹבָא.]