ḫīʾāṭu
1 Lexical
Commentaries
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [iḫ-ta-niṭ-ṭa-áš]-šú : LÁ : ḫa-a-ṭu : LÁ : naḫāsu CunMon. 49/2, 213: 5 “[it constantly overcomes] him (is logographically written) LÁ (meaning) to weigh (upon) (idiom.: to overcome) (but) LÁ (means also) to recede”. Commentary Sakikkû X 2. new
61. GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) parakkašu ellam ša ina muḫḫi Emaš ramû a-ḫi-iṭ-ma uddissu Wilcke 2017, 741: 13 “I inspected his (scil. Anu’s) pure cult dais, which is set up on the top of the Emaš and restored it”.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) bābam? (text: KÁ ?) a-ḫi-iṭ alaktašu uštassikma Wilcke 2017, 742: 49 “I inspected the gate(?) (and) kept its passage in order”.
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) i-ḫi-iṭ-ma mitḫāriš parakkī AulaOr. Suppl. 23, 42: 5 (Gilg.) eBL “likewise he inspected the shrines”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ṣīdāna iraššīšumma ⸢enūma⸣ ḫajāttašu LÁ-šú ṭēmšu inakkiršumma Sakikkû III 43 “it causes him an attack of vertigo and, when the fit overwhelms him, his reasoning changes for him”. See similar Sakikkû XIII 119′ (followed by pardiš iddanabbub “he constantly speaks anxiously”) and Sakikkû XXVI 12′f. (15′f. in Heeßel 2000). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [šumma miqtu imqus]suma MU 1kám imqutušuma ana ittišuma LÁ-šu Sakikkû XXVI 8′ “[if m .-epilepsy befalls] him and, (since) it has been affecting him for a year, he is overwhelmed (by a seizure) when its warning sign(s appear)”. See also Sakikkû XXXI 14′ (35′–39′ in Heeßel 2000) (ana ittišu i-ḫi-iṭ-ṭ[a-áš-šú]). Diff. Heeßel 2000, 287 (“[Wenn ein Fall] ihn [befällt] und ihn jährlich befällt und (außerdem) es ihn am erwarteten Zeitpunkt überwältigt”). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [šumma kīma?* miq]ti imqussuma ina ūmi šuʾāti sebîšu ušterdīma i-ḫi-is-su (‖ LÁ-su) Sakikkû XXVI 9′ “[if something like m-epilep]sy affects him and during that day, seven times it persistently overcomes him”. new
12. GtnGtn-stem (G with tan-infix, iterative)
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GtnGtn-stem (G with tan-infix, iterative) ina taqtīt ḫ[ajāttiš]u? iḫ-ta-niṭ-ṭa-áš-šú Sakikkû X 2 “(if) it repeatedly overwhelms him at the end of [hi]s f[it(?)]”. new
Discussion
For the use of the verb together with the derived word ḫajāttu “to have a fit, attack (of illness)” and its meaning in medical contexts, see Stol 1993, 42–46 assuming a base meaning “to weigh”, which, with 3rd p. sg. dative pronoun -(aš)šu(m), means lit. “it weighs on him”, leading to a fig. meaning “it overwhelms him”.