קָרַע (b. h.) to tear, split; esp. to rend the garment in mourning. Kel. XVI, 5 עד שיִקְרְעֶנּוּ (Mish. ed. שיַקְרִיעֶנּוּ Hif.) until he tears the bale open. M. Kat. 22ᵇ על כל … אינו קוֹרֵעַ אלא עליון for all dead (except parents) … one must rend only the upper garment. Ib. האשה קוֹרַעַת וכ׳ a woman (mourning for her parents) rends the lower garment and puts it back in its place, and then rends the upper garment. Snh. 60ᵃ אחד השומע … חייב לִקְרוֹעַ both he that hears a blasphemy directly, and he that hears it from one that heard it (and reports as witness before court) must rend his garment; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. קָרוּעַ; pl. קְרוּעִים, קְרוּעִין. M. Kat. 26ᵇ היוצא בבגד ק׳ וכ׳ he that marches before a corpse with a garment rent (for a previous case) robs (deceives) the dead and the living. Ib.ᵃ (ref. to II Kings II, 12) ק׳ ועומדים לשנים remaining always rent in two; ib. 22ᵇ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 4); Snh. l. c.; a. fr.
    Pi. - קֵרֵעַ 1) same. M. Kat. 26ᵇ ואין מְקָרְעִין בפניו you must not rend your garment in his (the sick man’s) presence. Ib. מקרעין לקטן וכ׳ we rend a minor’s garment in order to make him feel sad; ib. 14ᵇ. R. Hash. 16ᵇ ארבעה … מקרעין גזר וכ׳ four things cause an evil decree passed on man to be torn (cancelled), they are: charity, prayer &c.; a. fr. —2) (cmp. גָּרַע) to scrape, to mark the outlines of letters by abrasion. Gitt. 19ᵇ עדים … מקרעין להם וכ׳ for witnesses that know not how to sign their names, grooves are made on blank paper, and they fill the grooves out with ink; ib. 9ᵇ; Y. ib. II, 44ᵇ top ומְקָרֵעַ; [Tosaf. to Gitt. 9ᵇ: you cut the names out on blank paper and put it on the document, and the witnesses fill the cuts out]. Tosef. Sabb. XI (XII), 8, contrad. fr. רשם; a. e.
    Nif. - נִקְרַע to be torn; to be cut open, be operated upon by a section. Yeb. VIII, 6, a. e. טומטום שנ׳, v. טוּמְטוּם. Bekh. 42ᵇ שמא יִקָּרֵעַ וכ׳ he may have an operation performed, and be found a eunuch; Tosef. Yeb. XI, 1; Yeb. 83ᵇ. B. Bath. 168ᵇ נ׳ פסול נִתְקָרֵעַ כשר if a document is found torn, it is invalid; if it appears torn by accident, it is valid as evidence; ib. נ׳ קֶרַע של בית דין נתק׳ וכ׳ miḳrʿa refers to the rent as made in court for cancellation, nithḳareʿa refers to a rent different from the manner customary in court; Y. Gitt. II, 44ᵇ; a. e.
    Nithpa. - נִתְקָרֵעַ to become torn, v. supra.