קוֹרְטָא, Nidd. 20ᵃ, v. גַּרְגִּשְׁתָּא. Ḥull. 105ᵇ ומשתכח כי ק׳ בכורא it (the injurious kind of Sodomitic salt) is found in the proportion of one grain in a Kor; a. e.—Pl. קוֹרְטִין, קוֹרְטֵי. Ib. 43ᵇ תרי ק׳ דמא two drops of coagulated blood; a. e.—Trnsf. a man of minute weight, pigmy. Gen. R. s. 16 פישון … ננסא ק׳ קטוע פושכא Ms. Par. quot. Koh. Ar. Compl. s. v. (Ar. ed. Koh. קרטא; ed. only פישון זו בבל) Pishon (Gen. II, 11) refers to Babel, (Nebuchadnezzar) the dwarf, the pigmy, the stunted, of the size of a hand-breadth (v. Yalk. Dan. 1062, quot. s. v. פּוּשְׁקָא).