צִיפּוֹרֵי ², Sepphoris in Upper Galilee. Meg. 6ᵃ קטרון זו צ׳ וכ׳ Kitron (Jud. I, 30) is Sepphoris, and why is it named S.? Because it is perched on the top of a mountain like a bird (tsippor). B. Bath. 75ᵇ אני ראיתי צ׳ בשלותה I have seen S. in her prosperous days. Sabb. 121ᵃ, v. גַּסְטְרָא. Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ top רבי … בצ׳ וכ׳ Rabbi lived in S. seventeen years. Arakh. IX, 6 קצרה … של ציפורים the old castle of S. (a fortification dating from the days of the lsraelitish conquest); Bab. ed. (32ᵃ) ציפורי; a. fr.—Ex. R. s. 3, a. e. ציפורן (corr. acc.).