*צַרְצוּרָא, (צְרַר I) knot, loop. Gen. R. s. 92 (ref. to ויאסר וכ׳, Gen. XLII, 24) כהדין צ׳ עביד וכ׳ he (Joseph, in tying Simeon) made something like a loop (making the brothers believe, that he really tied him), as it is written, ‘he tied them in their eyes’; cmp. ib. s. 91. [Comment. ref. to preced. w. or to צִרְצוּר offer no intelligible explan.]