סְתַר ², סְתַר ch. same 1) to tear down, destroy. Targ. Y. Deut. VII, 5. Targ. Jer. I, 19; a. fr.—Taan. 20ᵇ כל אשיתא … הווה ס׳ לה every threatening wall he ordered to be torn down. B. Bath. 3ᵇ לא לִיסְתּוֹר וכ׳ one must not tear down a synagogue before having built another one. Ib. סֵתְרֵי ובנו, v. סִתְוָא; a. fr. —2) to unravel, wind up. Ḥull. 60ᵃ, v. דַּוְלָלָא.
    Pa. - סַתֵּר same. Targ. Prov. XV, 25 (Var. ed. Lag. נסטר, corr. acc.). Targ. II Kings XI, 18; a. e.—Yeb. 116ᵇ קרע סַתְּרִי מזייך … rend thy garments, disarrange thy hair (in mourning). Ned. 50ᵇ עד דמְסַתְּרִין וכ׳ until the people of his household disarranged their hair for him (in sympathy with his pain).
    Ithpa. - אִסְתַּתַּר to be torn down. Meg. Taan. ch. VIII, v. סוֹרִיגָא.