עִנְיָן, [answer, corresponding affair,] correspondence, relation; subject, object, affair, idea. Sifra introd. שהוא כעִנְיָנוֹ in keeping with the general subject to which it is related, v. טָעַן I; שלא כענינו out of relation to the general subject. Kidd. 6ᵃ והוא שעסוקין באותו ע׳ provided they are engaged in conversation on that subject (of marriage). Ib. מע׳ לע׳ באותו ע׳ when their conversation changed from one point to another all, however, having relation to that subject (of marriage, e.g. about dowry, about the man’s financial condition). B. Bath. 114ᵃ כל זמן שעוסקין באותו ע׳ so long as the judges are engaged in that case (of donation), opp. כל זמן שיושבין so long as they are in session. Kidd. 43ᵃ אם אינו ע׳ לגופו תנהו ע׳ לכל וכ׳ if it (that word ההוא in the text) has no bearing on the subject itself (because a previous ההוא has already intimated the exclusion of a messenger), make it bear on all laws of the Torah (that you cannot authorize a deputy for an unlawful act). Tosef. Meg. IV (III), 5 [read:] בבית הוועד שואלין לעִנְיַין הפסח וכ׳ in the school house the subject of Passover laws is discussed thirty days (before the festival). Tosef. Sot. VI, 2, v. עָנָה I. Cant. R. to I, 10 (ref. to Num. XXVII, 1-11, a. 12-23) וכי מה ע׳ זה לזה what relation is there between these two subjects?; a. v. fr.—Pl. עִנְיָנוֹת, עִנְיָי׳, עִי׳. Tosef. Meg. l. c. מדלגין מע׳ הפסח הכתובין בתורה Var. ed. Zuck. (ed. בעניין, corr. acc.) they skip (make selections) from the Scriptural passages relating to Passover. Tosef. Sabb. XIII (XIV), 4 ברכות אע"פ וע׳ הרבה שבתורה וכ׳ … benedictions (prayers), even if there be in them some of the letters of the Divine Name and many selections from the Torah, should not be saved from fire (on the Sabbath); Y. ib. XVI, 15ᶜ; Treat. Sof’rim XV, 4. Y. Maas. Sh. IV, 55ᵃ bot. מה פליגין כשהפליגו דעתן לע׳ אחרים in what case do they differ? When they had turned their mind to other points, opp. to עסוקין באותו עניין (v. supra); Y. Gitt. VI, 47ᵈ bot. (corr. acc.).