ḫīʾāru

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Variant: ḫâru
Meanings:
to choose, prepare
de:German: Deutsch erwählen, auswählen, vorbereiten
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: ḫjrII/j (mediae infirmae)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), GtGt-stem (G with t-infix), GtnGtn-stem (G with tan-infix, iterative)
Etymology: Inherited Cf. Arab. ḫjr (ḫāra) “to choose”, Wehr 370 and Ge’ez ḫarja, ḫaraja, Eth. ḥaräjä “to choose”, see Leslau 1987, 265.
4Attestations

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ša rēš kirîša lu-ḫir-ši-im JCS 26, 163 r. 13 SEAL “I shall pick for her the best of her garden”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ina uzzim ša lilîm i-ḫi-a-ar mātam AML, 164: 8 SEAL “in a lilû -demon's rage she (Lamaštu) browses the country”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [m]eḫra ṣabissu : libbū Lamaštu (dKAMAD.ME) i-ḫar-šú CunMon. 49/2, 340: 6 “[an in]cident ( meḫra ) has seized him, as in ‘Lamaštu (KAMAD.ME- i-ḫar ) chooses him’”. Commentary Sakikkû XL 5. new

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) a-ḫa-ri-ma! (MU) ina qātī mamma ana bēlija ušēbila dubsar 3, 99: 23 eBL “I will prepare (the tablets) and send them with someone to my lord”. Previously cited AHw 18 s.v. aḫarimu (now deleted) and interpreted as loan from Aramaic. Against this reading see already CAD A/1 170a and Levavi 2018, 347.

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