זוגא דמן הדייב

Zugah of Man HaDeyev [referring to Yaakov HaDeyev, which is a place name. So too states the Aruch in the entry of HaDeyev. Rav Huna (in that context) passed away, etc. The Tanna taught them the Zugah of Man HaDeyev.

And see the Aruch in the entry of HaDeyev in chapter Yochasin (Baba Kamma 82b) this Chibur is HaDeyev, and the translation in Ashkenaz is HaDeyev (in that context). And in the Aruch in the entry of Zava at the end of the Gemara of D'Mashkin (written on the side of page 10 and is only found in chapter 3 of Makkot 28a) the Tanna taught them Zava of Man HaDeyev, and in Niddah (21b) Zava of Man HaDeyev came and brought the Mishnah in her hands, meaning there a sage, thus concludes the Aruch.

And the version before us in Makkot and Niddah is Zugah, and Rashi explains in Niddah and in Ein Yaakov in Makkot it is two Talmidei Chachamim. Likewise in Sanhedrin (12a) they sent to Rava Zugah from Rekat, Rashi explains Zugah as two Talmidei Chachamim from Rekat Tveria. And see in the Aruch in the entry of Zav, it brings many places in the Shas that Zava is two, and in all the places that the Aruch brings in our Shas it is written Zugah in the place where it brings Zava.

And it appears according to the explanation of the Aruch that Zava or Zugah is a name of a sage, not a term for two, as the Tanna taught them Zugah or Zava according to the reading of the Aruch, it should have said 'give them' in the plural form. And therefore it said in Niddah 'came and brought' and not 'they came.' And see nearby that there is a Zugah, a sage there, and in the Jerusalem Talmud in chapter M'galchin at the end of halacha 1, a Zugah came before Rava with a mustache and with nail clipping and he permitted them.

Rabbi Simon in the name of Rabbi Chanina said there were two Zugot, one from Amatan and one from Midad, one with a mustache and one with nail clipping, etc. It appears that his explanation is two.]