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סתם n.m. anonymous opinion, undefined manner (→ √סתם ; MH סתם Jast 1032) 1.anonymous opinion: sg. ר׳ יוסי אמ׳ לה סתם PN stated it as an anonymous opinion Kil 31a(34); Mas 49b(29); Hal 57b(32); Suk 51c(48); Yeb 5c(4); ib. 10d(57); 12d(52); 14a(32); סתמה ור׳ יוסי הל׳ כסתמא (do we say that if) there is an anonymous opinion against PN, the law is according to the anonymous opinion? Ber 4d(24); Svi 38b(34); Mas 49b(44); אתייא יחידייא דהכא כסתמא דתמן ויחידייא דתמן כסתמא דהכא the opinion of the single authority agrees with the anonymous opinion there, and the opinion of the single authority there agrees with the anonymous opinion here Sab 16b(41) [add. refs. → יחידיי ]; 2.undefined manner, case: sg. מתנית׳ בסתם הא במפרש לא the Mishna (refers) to an undefined case, but in an explicit one, it is not so Svi 36a(35); Ter 42a(43); ib. c(46); Or 61a(64); Git 47c(19); כתוב לה סתם ואנא למאן דבעי אנא נסב כתב ליה סתם write it (i.e. the order) in an undefined manner, and I will take whomever I want. He wrote it in an undefined manner Sot 17b(38); מה אמ׳ לכון גדיל או מחיק (G) אמרו לה סתם אמ׳ לן what did he tell you? Heaped up or leveled? They said to her: He said to us in an undefined manner Pes 31c(6) // EstR 5a(30)Bacher, Term 2:145.
