A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/סתום - סתם
סתום (o סתום) m. (סתם) closing up, pasting over. Ab. Zar. 69b ניכר סתומו (or סתומו; Ms. M. שתמו) its paste will tell (that the cask has been tampered with); v. שתם.
סתומה, v. סתימה, a. סתמא.
סתומתאה, v. סתימתאה.
סתונית, v. סתוונית.
סתור (b. h.) pr. n. m. Sethor, one of the twelve spies. Sot. 34b; Gen. R. s. 71; a. e.; v. סתורים. - [Tosef. Men. IX, 14 ירהrס II.].
סתורא m. (סתר II) destroyer. - Pl. סתורי. Yoma 10a, v. בנויא.
סתורים, סתורין m. pl. (preced.) confusion.mischief Gen. R. s. 71 (play on סתור q. v.) ס׳ בן (not בין) a doer of mischief; (Yalk. ib. 126 מסתורין בר, v. מסתורין).
סתות, v. סיתות.
סתי, Lam. R. to I, 15 some ed., v. סאתא II.
סתידראות f. pl. (Hithpa. noun of סדר, as שתתייה for השתחויה; cmp. אסתדירא, אסטרידא) riggings, sail- yards. Ab. d'IR. N. ch. XXXI וכ׳ באדם ס׳ בעולם ס׳ there are sail-yards in the world, and so there are sail-yards in the structure of man, that is, his two arms.
סתיו, v. בתו.
סתימא, v. סתימתא.
סתימה f. (סתם) closing, closure, cover. Snh. 47b, a. e. הגולל סתימת, v. גולל. Kel. VIII, 8 ולפנים הס׳ מן (ed. Dehr. הסתומה) from where the covering of the vessel begins and farther inside (not the rim surrounding the lid); Tosef. ib. B. Kam. VI, 15 סתו׳.
סתימתא f. (preced.) that which is closed up, secret. -- Pl. סתימאתא. Targ. II Esth. IX, 14 (ed. Lag. סתיראתא).
סתימתאה m. (v. סתם) an unnamed authority. Bekh. 30a; Meg. 2a ס׳ עaס דברי זו those are the words of R. Akiba. whose opinion has been adopted without nanming him. Ib. 26a סתומ׳. Keth. 101b; a. fr.
סתירה I f. (סתר I) hiding, retirement, esp. (with ref. to Num. V, 13) a married wooman's retirement with a man under susmiicious circumstances. Sot 2a וס׳ קינוי he husband's jealousy (warning) and the wife's retirement. Ibb a. fr.
סתירה II f. (סתר II) tearing down, destruction. Meg. 31b ס׳. זקנים סתירת the tearing down of the old is build- ing, the building of the young is tearing down; Ned. 40a; Tosef. Ab. Zar. I, 19. Tosef. Men. IX, 14 מקום מכל ס׳ ושל ed. Zuck. (Var. סתור or סתור) and wood of any kind taken from a torn -down building (or a broken vessel; v. Sifra. Vayikra, N'dab., Par. 4, ch. VI; Men. 22a נשתמש שלא. עצים הדיוט בהן). - Trnsf. discontinuance; cancelling. Y. Naz. II, end, 52b ממש ככ׳ הער סתירת the interruption of a Naza- rite's vow brought about by cutting his hair, is like a real annulment (so that he has to begin his naaarriteship anew). Ib. V, 55b top שלש לס׳ for cancelling the nazariteship (the obligation to begin it over again), the cutting of at least three hairs is required; v. סתר I.
סתירתא f, pl. סתיראתא v. סתימתא.
סתית, v. סיתות.
סתם (b. h.; = סחתם, Saf. of חתם) 1) to stop up, close, shut. Ab. Zar. V, 3 זיגוב ויסתום שישתום כדי, v. נגב. B. Mets. VII, 5 וכ׳ הפתח את סותם ויהא. . יהא שלא that he (the laborer) must not be greedy so as to shut the door before himself (make himself objectionable to employers). Hull. 43a, a. e. סותמתהה וכבד שניקבה מרה if the bladder of the gall is perforated, and the liver (adhering to the perforated spot) closes it up. Ib. 49b סותם טהור חלב clean fat (such as it is permitted to eat) forms a stopper (to an adjacent organ, and makes the animal so affected per- mitted). Pes. IV, 9 (56a) וכ׳ גיחון מי ס׳ he stopped up the water of the upper Gihon (II Chr. XXXII, 3); a. fr. -- Part. pass. סתום; f. סתומהה; pl. סתומים, סתומין; סתומות. Yeb.71b; Nidd. 30b; Lev. R. s. 14 וכ׳ ונסתם הס׳ נפתח tthe organ which (in the embryonic stage) was closed, opehs, and that which was open, closes itself. Bets. IV, 3 ס׳ .. בית a room filled with fruit which was closed up (with bricks). Y. ib. 62c bot. ס׳ לפסים pots with their lids on (not yet cut apart); Tosef. ib. III, 13; Tosef. Sabb. XVIXVII), 13. Snh. 94a (ref. to לטרבה, Is. IX, 6) ס׳ וזה.. מם כל מה מפני why is every Mem in the middle of a word open, and this one is closed (final Mem). Meg. 3a וכ׳ בסוף וס׳. פתוחין open in the middle of words and closed at the end (v. מנצפ'ד); a. fr. -- Esp. סתומה פרשה a paragraph in the lorah separ- ated fropm the preceding by a acant space in the middle of the line, opp. to פתוחה a section beginning a new in- dented line. Gen. R. s. 96, beg., v. infra. Treat. Sof'rim I, 14 וכ׳ שהניה כל ס׳ איזוהי what is a closed paragraph? When space is left &c.; ס׳ נקראת ותהא. יניח וכמהand how much space must be left . . , in order that the paragraph may be called closed?; a. fr. -- 2) to conceal. Gen. R.l. c. (ref.. to the section beginning with Gen. XLVII, 28) that para- graph is closed, וכ׳ ממנו שס׳ because the Lord concealed from his vision all (coming) troubles; (Yalk. ib. 154 ממנו שנסתמו, v. infra); a. e. -- Part. pass. as ab. concealed, nott explicitly stated, opp. מפורש. Zeb. 53a מן ס׳ ילמד המפורש let that which is not explicitly stated in a law be derived (by analogy) from what is explicitly stated; Sifra Ahire, beg. הס׳ על פתוח ילמד let the explicit state- ment throw ight on the implicit. Meg. 15a אאבותיו . . . כל ס׳ a person (mentioned in the Bible) whose deeds and the deeds of whose ancestors are not stated; a. fr. - Y. Bets. l. c. (in Chald. dict.) סתומה the anonymous opinion, v. סתמא. Nif. נסתם, Hithpa. הסתתם, Nilhpa. נסתתם to be closed; to be concealed; to be silenced. Gen. R. l. c. ממנו ו׳.. בקש 19o t