עדר

עָדַר(b. h.; cmp. גָּדַר a. עָדַד) 1) to strip.Part. pass. עָדוּר; f. עֲדוּרָה, v. אָדַר. 2) to pluck, clear (of weeds); to hoe; to pick (figs, cmp. אָרָה); (b. h. also: to sift an army, to discharge the unfit , to muster out, v. 1 Chr. 12:34; 39). Neg. II, 4; Sifra Thazr., Neg., Par. 3, ch. 4 כעוֹדֵר in the position of one hoeing; כעודר בבית הסתרים the position of one hoeing is required for the examination of the posteriors. Tosef.Maasr.II, 14 פוִעלים שהיו עוֹדְרִין בתאנים laborers engaged in picking figs; B. Mets.89b (Ar. אורין, v. אָרָה). Ib. לַעֲדוֹר ולקשקשוכ׳ Rashi (ed. לעַדֵּר, Pi.) to hoe and to cover up the roots of olive trees. B. Kam. 119b עוֹדְרֵי ירקות engaged in thinning vegetables (cmp. דָּלַל); a. fr. Pi. עִדֵּר same. Tosef.Maasr.II, 13 מְעַדְּרִין בשדה engaged in hoeing a field. Gen. R. s. 82 better is he who rents one field ומזבלה ומְעַדְּרָהּוכ׳ and manures and hoes it Y.Maasr.III, end, 51a והוא שעי׳ רובה provided he broke the ground of the larger portion of the court; a. fr.Tosef.Makhsh.I, 3 מעודר, ed. Zuck. מעודרון, v. עוּד. Nif. נֶעֱדַר, נֶעְדַּר 1) to be hoed, to be prepared for tillage. Y. l. c. והיא שתהא נעדרת provided the ground of the court has been broken (before sowing). Ib. 50d bot. חצר שהיא נעדרת ונזרעת R. S. to Maasr. III, 9 (ed. only נעדרת) a court which has been hoed up and planted with seeds; a. e. 2) to be cast out, rejected, banished. Sot.IX, 15 (49b) והאמת תהא נעדרת and Truth shall be banished (fr. Is. 59:15); Snh.97a; Cant. R. to II, 13; v. עֵדֶר. 3) to withdraw ones self, fail. Lev. R. s. 31; Midr. Till. to Ps. 19; Yalk. ib. 673 (expl. Zeph. 3:5), v. פְּסַק.