חֵרֶם m. (b. h.; preced.) 1) net. Kel. XXIII, 5; XXVIII, 9, v. זֶוֶט; a. fr.—Ned. II, 5, v. infra. —2) a place adapted for catching fish in nets, fishing coast, fishery. B. Kam. 81ᵇ מלא חבל ח׳ בדרומה a rope’s length (district) of fishing coast south of it (the Lake of Tiberias); Tosef. ib. VIII, 18 Var. ed. Zuck.—Erub. 47ᵇ ח׳ שבין וכ׳ a fishpond between two territories. —3) [cut off, excluded, cmp. חוּלִּין, הֶפְקֵר,] ḥerem, property set apart for priest’s or Temple use; doomed to destruction. Ned. II, 4 אם כח׳ של שמים if (he said, This shall be to me) like the ḥerem consecrated to the Temple, opp. ח׳ של כהנים assigned to the private use of priests. Ib. 5 נדר בח׳ … בחֶרְמוֹ של ים if he made a vow of abstinence using the word ḥerem, and he says, I meant the ḥerem of the sea (fisher’s net). Ib. I, 2 כינויין לח׳ verbal substitutes for ḥerem (effecting prohibition); a. fr. —4) excommunication. M. Kat. 17ᵃ.—Pl. חֲרָמִים, חֲרָמִין. Snh. 43ᵇ מעל עכן בג׳ ח׳ Akhan committed three sacrileges. Ned. II, 4 סתם ח׳ containing the expression ḥerem unqualified. Ib. חַרְמֵי הכהנים the dedications as priestly property. Arakh. VIII, 6 סתם ח׳ לבדק הבית unqualified dedications (this be ḥerem) go to the repair of the Temple; a. fr.—[Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵃ top שצבעה בחרם, read: בחֶרֶת.]—V. חֵירוּם.