חַס ², ; חס ל־ [God spare him!,] far from him! Targ. Gen. XLIV, 7 (h. text חָלִילָה); a. e.,—Kidd. 44ᵇ וחס ליה לזרעיה וכ׳ and far it is from the son of Abba … (Samuel) to have said so; Ḥull. 111ᵇ. Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᵈ bot. חס ליה לא וכ׳ far from him! He never did &c.