bazāʾu

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Variant: bazāḫu
Meanings:
to make (unreasonable) demands
Distribution: OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE), OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: bzʾIII/ʾ (tertiae ʾaleph)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)
Etymology: A short disc. of diff. suggestions (BZḪ, BZʾ/W, BṢʾ) for the etym. of the verb is found in Streck 2000, 85f. s.v. bazaḫātu. The verb is perhaps connected with Hebr. BZZ “to plunder, to loot” (HAL I 113, also Arab.; cf. also possible variant BZʾ “to sweep away” HAL I 113) rather than with Hebr. BZʾ/W (AHw 145; cf. Hebr. HAL I 113 “to disdain”). There is no need to postulate an Amor. lw., and a connection with bazaḫātu is still semantically difficult.
6DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) gerseqqûka qāssunu išakkanūma šurīpam ú-ba-az-za-ḫu FM 2, 149 no. 82: 21' ARCHIBAB “your servants lay claim to and loot the ice”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) kī … ālam šêtu taṣbatāma tu-ba-zi-ḫa ARM 26/2, 339 no. 435: 14 ARCHIBAB “how could you seize that city and encroach on it?” new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) PN ana mātija iḫḫabtamma 3 4 ālānīja ilqē mātī ú-ba-za-ḫa ARM 26/2, 199 no. 384: 27' ARCHIBAB “PN made incursions to my land and took 3, 4 of my cities. He was looting my land”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) awīlam šâtu ina GN iṣbatūma ú-ba-zi-ḫu-šu u mimma ša našû īkimūšu MARI 6, 63: 20 fn. 129 ARCHIBAB “they seized that man in GN and looted him and took away from him all he was carrying”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) kīma bu-zu-ḫu-um ibaššī ú-ba-az-za-ḫa-an-ni ARM 10, 77 r. 7'f. ARCHIBAB “whenever there is (a possibility) to encroach (on me) he encroaches on me”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ⸢ú⸣-ba!-zi-ḫu ARM 28, 101: 38 ARCHIBAB “they looted (sheep)”. new

Discussion

Heimpel 2003, 332 and 367 translated “to encroach on”. Joannès 1994, 150 n. c. suggested the slightly diff. nuance “piller”, Durand 2000, 547 “agresser qu’un, traiter avec mépris”.

The G-stem is so far only tentatively attested in OA (see CAD).

For ARM 5, 39: 13 (CAD B 185a b. 2b; AHw 145b) see pasāsu.

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