שָׁגַר (Shaf. of גרר; cmp. נגר) to run, flow.—Part. pass. שָׁגוּר; f. שְׁגוּרָה fluent, spoken without hesitation. Ber. V, 5 אם ש׳ תפלתי וכ׳ if my prayer is fluent in my mouth, I know &c., v. טָרַף; Tosef. ib. III, 3 שָׁגְרָה ed. Zuck. (Var. שגורה).—[Cant. R. to I, 15 שוגרת, v. infra.]
    Pi. - שִׁיגֵּר 1) to speak with fluency. Ex. R. s. 9 כיון ששִׁיגְּרוּ … בפיהם וכ׳ when they recited (these verses) the whole night with fluency, they considered it a good sign &c. —2) to make run, to send. Tanḥ. Mick. 8 תפוש … ושַׁגֵּר אותם לפני arrest them and send them up before me; Gen. R. s. 91. Ib. וש׳ בשבילם וכ׳ and sent (messengers) out for them to hunt them up &c. Tosef. Sabb. XIII (XIV), 9 ולהיפרכוס שלהן ש׳ לו וכ׳ and to their commander he sent a present of fifty denars. Ber. 51ᵃ, sq. מְשַׁגְּרוֹ לאנשי וכ׳ he sends it as a gift to his household. Snh. 59ᵇ אחד משגרו וכ׳ he sent out one (serpent) to the south &c. B. Bath. 146ᵃ. Sot. 35ᵇ שִׁגְּרוּ וכ׳, v. נוֹטָרִין a. fr.—Part. pass. מְשׁוּגָּר; f. מְשׁוּגֶּרֶת. Cant. R. to IV, 1, v. רוֹגְלִית; ib. to I, 15 שוגרת corr. acc.).
    Hif. - הִשְׁגִּיר [to speak fluently,] to improvise a prayer, change the established form. Y. Ber. V, 9ᶜ שליח צבור שה׳ שתים וכ׳ if a reader improvises two or three sections (of the Prayer of Benedictions), we do not make him go back and recite the established form.