תְּמוּתָה, [death; sub. בת,] an animal on the point of death. — Pl. תְּמוּתוֹת. Kidd. 21ᵇ sq. (applied to the law concerning the captive woman, as a concession to human appetites, Deut. XXI, 10 sq.) מוטב … בשר ת׳ שחוטות וכ׳ allow Israelites to eat the flesh of animals on the point of death but ritually slaughtered, rather than eat of carcasses unslaughtered; Treat. S’maḥ. ch. VII.