ḫepû II

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Variant: ḫapû, AssAss: Assyrian dialect (all periods) ḫapāʾu
Meanings:
to break; destroy
de:German: Deutsch zerschlagen; zerstören
fr:French: Français casser ; détruire
Distribution: OA onward(s)OA onward(s): Old Assyrian onwards (ca. 1900 BCE onwards), OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: ḫpjIII/j (tertiae infirmae) – i/ii/i class (Present i, Preterite i)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative)
Logogram: GAZ
Etymology: Inherited No Semitic cognates are known yet.
2 Lexical
Lexical Lists

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) zú [gaz]-gaz = ḫe-pu-ú MSL SS 1, 23 iv 21 (Sag) DCCLT. new

Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) dar : ḫe-pu-u Dubsar 9, 214: 5 gkab. Commentary on Šumma immeru. Following dar = salātu. new

41. GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [i]ḫ-pa-an-ni ORA 7, 210: 36 SEAL “he broke me”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) abnī šadî rabûti aḫ-pe-⸢e⸣-[ma] RIMB 2, 304 iv 30 “I quarried big mountain stones”. see also ib. p. 317 iii 11.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [..]. ana ⸢ḫa⸣-pe-e nišīšu ana šalāl[i? …] RINAP 5/3, 95: 14 RINAP “[..]. to injure his people, to carry of[f …]”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šumma tukkan zikartišu GAZ-át Sakikkû XIV 136 “if his scrotum is crushed”. new

32. DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ina sârišunu uḫ-tapte-pu-ú GN u GN₂ Gilg. SB V 157 (George 2003: V 134) eBL “as they whirled about they shattered GN and GN₂”. (or Dt?)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) [aban? rēmi taḫaššal?] ina muḫḫišu tu-⸢ḫap⸣-pa-ma Sakikkû XXXIX 23′ “[you crush compassion-stone] (and) crumble it on its surface”. Corresponds to 55′–59′ in Heeßel 2000. Restorations and readings according Schmidtchen 2025, 183: 23′ and the parallel BM 37063+ o 7′f. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) šumma ḫu-up-pa-a almānūta illak AfO Bh. 27, 158: 139 “if (a woman's fingernails) are broken, she will become a widow”. new

23. NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem) ina siliʾti īrikū .[..] murṣī arḫiš iggamir iḫ-ḫe-pi .[..] Ludlul III 50 eBL “[..]. were long during the illness (but) my suffering quickly came to an end (and) [..]. was halved/broken”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem) l[ibb]û it-te-eḫ-pi karpi ḫaṣbūmma ⸢imtūt⸣ [amēlu ?] CunMon. 49/2, 6: 5 “as in ‘(as) a pot has been broken into a potsherd so [a man(?)] has died’”. Commentary Sakikkû I 2. Cf. the parallel Wee 2019, 30: 3′ (partly restored). new

14. NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative) libbašu GAZmeš-šú pīqam lā qīqam innešši Sakikkû III 40 “he becomes constantly melancholic (and) sometimes confused”. new

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