רַעְיוֹן, v. רְעֵי II; cmp. Hos. XII, desire, ambition, greed. Y. Sabb. XIV, 14ᶜ bot. (ref. to Deut. VII, 15) כל חלי זה ר׳ ‘every disease’, this means ambition; (B. Mets. 107ᵇ; Lev. R. s. 16 זו עין). Y. Sabb. l. c. (ref. to Deut. XXVIII, 48) ונתן … זה ר׳ ‘he will put an iron yoke on thy neck’, that is greed.