שִׁיטָּה ², (שטט, cmp. שִׁרְטֵט) l) row, line. Neg. X, 6 וש׳ של שער וכ׳ and a row of hair separating them. Y. Kidd. II, 62ᵈ אשה … ושי׳ של וכ׳ (not שוטה) a bald-headed woman with a row of hair going around from ear to ear. Y. Yoma IV, 41ᶜ top אני ראיתיו … אלא ש׳ אחת וכ׳ I have seen it (the high priest’s mitre) in Rome, and there was engraved on it only in one line, ‘holy unto the Lord’. Tosef. Gitt. IX (VII), 11 מלא ש׳ אחת the space of one line (of writing); Y. ib. IX, 50ᶜ; Y. B. Bath. X, beg. 17ᶜ. Treat. Sof’rim XII, 8; a. fr.—Pl. שִׁיטִּין, שִׁטִּ׳ (m.), שִׁיטּוֹת. Ib. שִׁיטּוֹתֶיהָ של תורה the division of lines in the Pentateuch. Ib. 9 סימן תחלת הש׳ וכ׳ the mark for the beginning of lines (in Haăzinu, Deut. XXXII) is, Haazinu, Yaʿarof &c. Y. B. Bath. l. c. מקום שני ש׳ the space of two lines; Tosef. Gitt. l. c.; Y. ib. l. c. Ḥull. 65ᵃ בשתי תיבות פסיק להו בשני ש׳ וכ׳ written as two separate words, but not divided between two lines; a. fr.—2) (trnsf.) line of thought, opinion, principle, system. Lev. R. s. 2 אמר ש׳ אחרת offered a second mode (of developing the same idea from two Scripture verses). Y. Gitt. V, 47ᶜ top; Y. Erub. VII, 24ᶜ bot. ירדו לה בשִׁיטַּת וכ׳ they entered into (drew an analogy from) the principle laid down in the law concerning transactions of children. Erub. 99ᵃ, a. e. מוחלפת הש׳, v. חָלַף; (Rashi: R. J. is at variance with his own principle, v. שִׁיטְּתָא). Y. Pes. VII, beg. 34ᵃ בשיטת ר׳ מאיר following up R. Meir’s principle. Y. Peah V, 19ᵃ top [read:] בשִׁיטָּתָן השיבהו בשִׁיטַּתְכֶן דאתון אמרין וכ׳ he (R. El.) argued against them by entering into their opinion (without adopting it for himself); according to your principle, when you say &c.; a. fr. (in Chald. diction, v. שִׁיטְּתָא).—Pl. שִׁיטִּין. Num. R. s. 19⁹ (ref. to המרים, Num. XX, 10) ש׳ הרבה יש בו there are several ways of interpreting that word; a. e.