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title: עֲקַר — be rooted up · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: עֲקַר (lemma:עֲקַר), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: be rooted up. BDB 1906: vb. denom. be rooted up. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֲקַר

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«עֲקַר» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **be rooted up** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:עֲקַר · **BDB:** עֲקַר

### Glosses

they.were.uprooted (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be rooted up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e7_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. denom. be rooted up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e7_5b7_5e8/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. be rooted up;—Pf. 3 pl. (m.? v. K§ 23, 2) אִתְעֲקַ֫רוּ Kt, fpl. -רָה Qr, Dn 7:8.

### Jastrow 1903

עֲקַר I: to uproot to uproot, destroy; to mutilate, hamstring Pe. to be uprooted, detached, removed to become impotent [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e7_5b7_5e8/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to uproot \&c. Targ. II Kings III, 25. Targ. Jer. I, 10. Targ. Lam. III, 5; a. fr. 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. 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. 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.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֲקַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b2_5e7_5b7_5e8/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 7:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.8/)

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מִשְׂתַּכַּ֨ל הֲוֵ֜ית בְּקַרְנַיָּ֗א וַ֠אֲלוּ קֶ֣רֶן אָחֳרִ֤י זְעֵירָה֙ סִלְקָ֣ת בֵּֽינֵיהֵ֔ן וּתְלָ֗ת מִן־קַרְנַיָּא֙ קַדְמָ֣יָתָ֔א אֶתְעֲקַ֖רָה מִן־קֳדָמַ֑הּ וַאֲל֨וּ עַיְנִ֜ין כְּעַיְנֵ֤י אֲנָשָׁא֙ בְּקַרְנָא־דָ֔א וּפֻ֖ם מְמַלִּ֥ל רַבְרְבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* considering I.was (in) the horns and lo! a.horn another small it.came.up between them and three of the horns (the) former they.were.uprooted from before it and lo! eyes like the.eyes of.(the) humankind \[were\].on the horn this and a.mouth speaking great.\[things\]

*JPS 1917:* I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

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