סִימְטָא, (סמט, Saf. of מוט, cmp. שמט; v. אִיסְמְטָא) recess, alley adjoining an open place to which merchants retire to transact business; market-stand under a colonnade. Keth. 84ᵇ, opp. רשות הרבים. Pes. 50ᵇ; Tosef. Bicc. II, 16 תגרי ס׳ traders in market-stands. Sifra B’har, ch. VII, Par. 6, [read as:] Yalk. Lev. 667 (ref. to Lev. XXV, 42) לא יעשה ס׳ ויעמידם על וכ׳ one must not put up a stand and put them on the auction stone; a. e.—Pl. (h. form) סִימְטָיוֹת. Y. Sabb. I, 2ᵈ bot. ס׳ שבין העמודים; (Bab. ib. 7ᵃ only בין העמודים) the stands between the columns.