עִינּוּי ², עִינּוּי, עִנּ׳ II m. (עָנָה II) 1) delay, postponement. Ab. V, 8 ע׳ הדין delay in executing judgment, contrad. to עוות; Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXXVIII; Sabb. 33ᵃ —2) affliction, oppression; suffering. Mekh. Mishp. s. 18 (ref. to ענה תענה, Ex. XXII, 22) אחד ע׳ מרובה וכ׳ whether a great oppression (effecting a great loss), or a small oppression; Yalk. Ex. 349. Yoma 74ᵇ ע׳ בידי שמים a divine affliction; ע׳ בידי אדם an affliction at the hands of men. Sifré Deut. 130 (ref. to Deut. XVI, 3) it is called ‘bread of misery’ with reference to the affliction which they suffered in Egypt; a. fr.—Esp. (with or without נפש) self-affliction, mortification of the flesh. Yoma l. c. (ref. to Lev. XVI, 31) ע׳ שיש בו אבידת נפש an affliction with which a loss of vitality is connected (v. אֲבֵידָה). Ib. (ref. to Deut. VIII, 3) מה להלן ע׳ רעבון וכ׳ as there affliction means suffering through lack of food, so here &c. Ib. 77ᵃ רחיצה דאקרי ע׳ that abstention from bathing is called a privation. Ned. XI, 1 נדרי ע׳ נפש, v. נֶדֶר; a. fr.—Pl. עִינּוּיִים, עִינּוּיִין, עִנּ׳. Yoma 76ᵃ הני חמשה ע׳ וכ׳ those five deprivations (on the Day of Atonement)—what do they correspond to? כנגד חמשה ע׳ שבתורה to the five afflictions (fivefold use of ענה) in the Biblical text; Y. ib. VIII, 44ᵈ top כנגד ששה ע׳ וכ׳ corresponding to the six afflictions &c.; a. e.