עֲקַר I ch. same , to uproot &c. Targ. II Kings III, 25. Targ. Jer. I, 10. Targ. Lam. III, 5; a. fr.
    Pa. - עַקֵּר to uproot, destroy; to mutilate, hamstring. Targ. II Sam. XVII, 13; a. e.—Ib. VIII, 4 (ed. Wil. עֲקַר Pe.). Targ. Josh. XI, 6; a. e.—Pes. 115ᵇ קא מְעַקְּרֵי תכא וכ׳ 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. II, 22. Ib. XXIV, 31. Targ. Ps. LXXVI, 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 דרב וכ׳ 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.