קִים, (קוּם) standing; (it is) established, certain; ק׳ ל־ to be certain, to know. Sabb. 136ᵃ ק׳ לי ביה וכ׳ I am certain that its (the infant’s) months were complete (that it was no abortion). Ab. Zar. 76ᵇ מר ק׳ לי בגוויה וכ׳ I am sure about this gentleman (that he is a strict observer); about you I am not. Kidd. 66ᵃ אי לאו דק׳ ליה בנפשיה וכ׳ unless he was sure of himself that &c.; a. fr.—ק׳ ליה בדרבה מיניה (also קָם) he is sure of the larger portion of it, a proverbial expression for the rule, that he who has committed two offences simultaneously, must be held answerable for the severer only. Gitt. 52ᵇ מנסך קם ליה בדר׳ מ׳ he who uses his neighbor’s wine for idolatrous libation (and makes the remainder unavailabe), is exempt from making restitution for the wine, because he has to suffer the severer penalty, which is death. Ib. 53ᵃ משום דלא ק׳ ל׳ בדר׳ מ׳ because this is no case of a severer penalty (when he makes his neighbor’s wine unclean). Ḥull. 81ᵇ קם ל׳ בדר׳ מ׳ (Ms. M. קָאִים) he suffers the severer penalty (for slaughtering for idolatrous purposes, and is exempt from the penalty of stripes for slaughtering the dam and her child in one day); a. fr.