Jastrow, אוֹן

אוֹן m. (b. h.; √או, v. foreg.; cmp. חבל, חַיִל, חזקה a. next w.) possession, power. Tosef. Ab. Zar. III, 16 (IV, beg.) כתב לו או̇נו̇ if he (the seller of the slave) wrote to him (gave him in writing) the liberty of his disposal of himself, i.e. that the slave, if he should run away from the buyer, would not be claimed by him who sold him; Git. 43ᵇ כתב עליו אונו (read אליו or לו). Ib. מאי אונו what means ‘his own possession’? Ans. He wrote to him this, ‘If thou run away from him (the purchaser), I have nothing to do with thee. Ib. 85ᵇ.—[Y. B. Mets. I, end, 8ᵃ; Y. Kidd. I, 60ᶜ אונו, v. אוֹנִי.] V. אוֹנָה.