עֲקִירָה f. (עָקַר) 1) tearing loose, plucking. Snh. 68ᵃ למדני עֲקִירָתָן teach me, how to tear them out.—Pl. עֲקִירוֹת. Sifré Deut. 171, v. עִיקּוּר. —2) removal from place, lifting up. Sabb. 2ᵇ כל עֲקִירַת וכ׳, v. הוֹצָאָה. Ib. 3ᵃ עקירת גופו כעקירת חפץ וכ׳ is moving one’s body (starting to walk) like lifting an object from its place?; a. fr. —3) uprooting, undoing. Y. Hor. I, 46ᵃ עקירת הגוף a decision which abrogates a Biblical law entirely; Y. Yeb. X, 10ᵈ bot. —4) making childless, extinction. Pesik. R. s. 47 (ref. to להשמידו, Deut. IX, 20) עקירת בנים ובנות extinction of sons and daughters (v. כִּילּוּי).