A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/עקץ - עקרא
בם ע׳ לא not even a fea stung them; ib. to V, 3 עקצה.. Ib. to II, 15 אותם ועוקצין and tthey pricked them (with a. pin); a. fr. -- Esth. R. to I, 12 (proverbial expression) רמזתו נעקן ולא וtעקצת נרמז ולא she gave him a hint, and he did not heed it, she pricked him, and he did not feel the sting. Nif. נעקן to be stung, feel the sting, v. supra.
עקץ ch. same, to sting. Targ. Y. Deut. VIII, 15. - Bekh. 3ib וכ׳ מאדעקיליעקציה (Rashi; חעקציה דעקן מאן; Ar. עקסתיה דעקס מאן) let a scorpion sting him who stings (stung), i. e. he who ignored me deserves to be excommu- nicated.
עקר (b. h.; cmp. עקב) [to be curved, bent; denom. עיקר root,] 1) to uproot, tear loose, detach, remove; to eradicate, undo, abolish, abrogate. Hor. 14a הרים עוקר; Snh. 24a עוקר הרים הרי, v. הר. Ab. III, 17 וכ׳ ועוקרתו באה הרוח a wind comes and uproots it and turns it &c. Pesik. Ekha, p. 123a וכ׳ ומכנים דיורין עוקר ארון שנאמר מקום כל wherever Adon (Master) is mentioned in the Bible, it means (the landlord) that displaces tenants and imports tenants; ib. כנענים עוקר וכ׳ who drives out the Canaanites and brings in the ls- raelites. Y. Yeb. I, 2d; ib. XIII, beg. 13b לעקור . . ממאנת המת זיקת she may (on arriving at msjority) refuse the Yabam, which has the effect of annulling her relation to her deceased husband. Ib. עוקרת שהיא מודיי עמה כל all agree that by doing so she annuls her marriage to her deceased husband. Pes. 101b לצאת רגליהן עקרו when they detached their feet, in order to go. Sabb. 5a וכ׳ ממקומו כ׳ (sub. רגליו) he moved from his place and received it. Y. Bets. V, 63a bot., v. קישון. Meg. 5b וכ׳ תשעה לעקור בקש wanted to abolish the fast of the Ninth of Ab. Pes. 115b השלהן את עוקרין אין we do not remove the table (v. comment.); a. v. fr. -- Part. pass. עקור; f עקורה; pl. עקורים, עקורין; עקורות a) uprooted, torn out. Peah VI, 9 ע׳ תבואה loose (cut) grain, ע׳ שאינה still in the ground. -- b) = עקר [rrootless,]barren, impotent. Yeb. 64a היה ע אבינו יצחקsaac was impotent; היו ע׳ שניהם both of them (Isaac and Re- becca) were impotent. Ib. ע׳ אבותינו היו מה מפני wherefore were our ancestors childless (until they prayed)?; a. fr. -- Bekh. 44b (ref. to Deut. VII, 14 ועקרה) תפלתך תהא שלא וכ׳ ע׳ that thy prayer shall not be fruitless before the Lord; Yalk. Deut. 884 המקום מלפני ע׳. . . שלא that thy prayer shall not be removed from before the Lord; שלא התלמידים מן עקור ביתך יהא (not עקורה) that thy house shall not be deprived of scholars. -- 2) to mutilate, ham- string; to make barren, v. infra. Nif. נעקר to be uprooted; to be removed, eradicated, destroyed. Y. Kil. III, 28c bot. הראשונים נעקרו if the first seeds have been taken out. Ber. IX, 1 מקום . . . הרואה וכ׳ שנעקרה he who sees . . a place from which an idol has been removed (by destruction). Ib. 12b שתעקר לא וכ׳ ממקומה.... not that the memory of the going out from Egypt will be removed from its place (entirely extinct) &c., v. עיקר. Ibb וכ׳ יעקב שיעקר לא not that the name of Jacob will entirely fall into disuse; a. fr. Hif. העקיר to make barren (כקר). Cant. R. to II, 14 אתכן העקרתי מה מפני why did I decree tthat you be childless? Because I. desired to hear your prayer; Gen. R. s. 45 עקרתי Pi. (or עקרתי Kal). Pi. עיקר 1) to uproot; to tear loose &c. Ib. s. 42 מעשי בגפניםtried to uproot the vines(destroy the entire nation); Lev. R. s. 11. Ib. וכ׳ לעקר . .. המן Haman .. . undertook to destroy the vines; Gen. R. l. c. כלה הגפן לעקור ביקש. Hull. V, 3 המעקר he who tears loose the organs to be cut at slaughtering (v. סימן); a. fr. - 2) to unfit, mutilate, ham-- string; to make barren. Treat. S'mah. ch. VIII שורפין מלכים לפני ומעקרין you may burn (clothes &c.) and hamr string horses at a king's death; Ab. Zar. 11a עוקרין; Tosef. Sabb. VII (VIII), 19 עוקרין; v. עיקור. Gen. R. s. 4, v. supra; a. e. Nithpa.נתעקר to be made barr een. Ib. האמהות נתעקרו למה וכ׳why were the Mothers allowed to be childless? Because the Lord desired to hear their prayers; Cant. R. l. c. a. e.
עקר I ch. same, to uproot &c. Targ. II Kings III, 25. Targ. Jer. I, 10. Targ. Lam. III, 5; a. fr. Pa.עקר to uproot, destroy; to mutilate, hamstring. Targ. II Sam. XVII, 13;a. e. - Ib. VIII, 4 (ed. Wil. עקי Pe.). Targ. Josh. XI, 6; a. e. -- Pes. 115b וכ׳ תכא מעקרי קא they want to remove the tray before us. Ib. 113a ככא תעקר לא, v. ככא; a. e. Ithpa. אתעקי, hpe. אתעקי, איעקר 1) to be uprooted, detached, removed. Targ. Prov. II, 22. Ib. XXIV, 31. Targ. Ps. LXXVI, 7; a. fr. -- Sabb. 63b, v. ולד. Pes. 101a ואיתעקקרא שרגא ליה his lamp was upset. Y. Ab. Zar. II, 40c bot. ואיתעקערון and they were ruined (their trade became ex- tinct), opp. קמון they remained in the trade. Sabb. 147b תלמודיה איע׳ his learning was uprooted; i. e. he forgot what he had learned; a e. - 2) to become impotent. Yeb. 64b וכ׳ דרב מפרקיה איע׳ became impotent through sitting at the lectures of R. H. (by suppressing his needs). Keth. a2b דביתהו איעקרא his wife had lost the faculty of con- ceiving; a. e.
עקר, v. עיקר.
עקר m., עקרהf.(b. h.; preced. wds.)[rootless,]sterile, impotent, barren. Bekh. 44b ע׳ נמצא he becomes impotent. Ib. (ref. to Deut. VII, 14) [read;] יהיה שלא ע׳ בך יהיה לא התלמידים מן ע׳ ביתך there shall be no barren one among thee, means that thy house shall never be barren of scholars (v. Yalk. Deut. 848); Deut. R. s. 3 מן ועקרה עקר התשובה impotent to give a proper answer (to heretics). Ib. ע׳ תפלתך תהא לא, v. עקר. Gen. R. s. 53 אומר היית לא וב׳ ע׳ פרדה אברם didst thou not say, Abram is a barren mule &c. ; B. Bath. 91a (in Chald. dict.) עקרה כודנא, v. ודנא;a. fr. -- Num. R. s. 14 0play on עקרת, Num.VII, 55) אאת וכ׳ יעקב כנגד עקרת אלא קערת read not kdorath (dish), but. akereth (uprooted), corresponding to Jacob who wrested the birthright from Reuben and gave it to Joseph. -- Pl עקרים; f עקרות. Gen. R. s. 39 וככ הע׳ על ... אברהם Abraham. prayed for the childless women, and they were visited. Ib. s. 53 עמה נפקדו ע׳ הרבה many childless ones were visited at the same time with her (Sarah); a. fr.
עקר II עקרא m., צקרא, 2קרתא f. same. Targ. O. Deut. VII, 14. Targ. Ps. CXIII, 9; a. br. -- Sabb. 152a עקר Ag. Hatt. (ed. עיקרא), v. איקא. Gen. R. s. 47, beg. וצווהין ע׳ דא; ib. s. 53, v. יני I. Yab 65b דע׳ סמא a drug whiich