ebēru I
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Variant: LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
epēru
(occ.)
Meanings:
to cross, pass over
de:German: Deutsch überqueren, überschreiten
fr:French: Français traverser, franchir
Distribution: MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: ʾbrI/ʾ; I/e (primae ʾaleph) – i/ii/i class (Present i, Preterite i)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), GtnGtn-stem (G with tan-infix, iterative), ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem)
Logogram: BALA
Etymology: Cf. beneath other Sem. languages Aram. (Jew.-Pal./Bab.) ʿbr “to cross over”, see 2002, 394 and 2002, 840; Arab. ʿbr “to cross; to die”, see Lane 2003, 1936 or Syr. ʿbr “to pass on/by”, see Payne Smith 1903, 398f.
1Attestations
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šumma šerʾān nakkaptišu? eb-ru-nim Labat 1956, 125: 10 eBL “if the blood vessels of his temple(s?) lie across”. Note the SB partly parallel Sakikkû IV: 89 with a Gt-stem form of parāʾu “to cut each other off” (see parāʾu). new