dipāru

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Meanings:
torch
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PiRāS
Etymology: Uncertain Cf. Hebr. lappîd “torch” (Zimmern 1917, 36; Segert 1962; Salonen 1965, 139)? Note perhaps also the etym. uncertain word in the Babylonian Talmud, tybwrʾ “torch”, see Sokoloff 2002, 1203.
21. Torch

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts šumšu kīma di-pa-ar mušīʾāti im⸢mar⸣ Iraq 78, 245: 2 SEAL “he looks at his offspring like a torch in the night”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) nišē nagî šuʾā⸢ti⸣ .[..] kīma di-⸢pa⸣-ri aqūduma RINAP 2, 452: 53 RINAP “the people of that region .[.. (which/whose …?)] I have set alight like a torch”.

22. In OB with našû, referring to military activity

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) di-pa-ar-šu inaššī AbB 8, 23: 25 “he will raise his torch (and he has ordered provisions for his troops)”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina qablit mātim di-pa-ra-am našêta MARI 7, 176 no. A.3206: 8 “you are raising the torch in the middle of the land”. cf. ib.: 11. new

13. With determinative GI "cane, reed"

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gidi-pa-ri-im ARM 26/2, 85 no. 320: 8. new

14. Among diseases

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ÉN kirigiš di-pa-ri epqēnu kissatu BPOA 3, 287: 137. (var.: [di]-⸢pár⸣) ib 287: 137; di-pa-ar (var. di-pár) ib 289: 147; 150. new

15. Metaphor

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) liblī di-pa-ar zibbatišu AML, 93: 11 SEAL “let the torch of its tail be extinguished”. new

16. In personal names

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