עקר I

עֲקַרI ch. sam(עקרroot), to uproot Targ. 2 Kings 3:25. Targ. Jer. 1:10. Targ. Lam. 3:5; a. fr. Pa. עַקֵּר to uproot, destroy; to mutilate, hamstring. Targ. 2 Sam. 17:13; a. e.Ib. 8:4 (ed. Wil. עֲקַר Pe.). Targ. Josh. 11:6; a. e.Pes.115b קא מְעַקְּרֵי תכאוכ׳ they want to remove the tray before us. Ib. 113a לא תְעַקֵּר ככא, v. כַּכָּא; a. e. Ithpa. אִתְעַקַּר, Ithpe. אִתְעֲקַר, אִיעֲקַר 1) to be uprooted, detached, removed. Targ. Prov. 2:22. Ib. 24:31. Targ. Ps. 76:7; a. fr.Sabb.63b, v. וְלַד. Pes.101a ואִיתְעַקְּרָא ליה שרגא his lamp was upset. Y.Ab. Zar. II, 40c bot. ואִיתְעַקְּרוּן and they were ruined (their trade became extinct), opp. קמון they remained in the trade. Sabb.147b איע׳ תלמודיה his learning was uprooted; i. e. he forgot what he had learned; a. e. 2) to become impotent. Yeb.64b איע׳ מפרקיה דרבוכ׳ became impotent through sitting at the lectures of R. H. (by suppressing his needs). Keth.62b אִיעַקְּרָא דביתהו his wife had lost the faculty of conceiving; a. e.