ḫibšu I
2Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) n ḫi-ib-šu SpTU 4, 220 ii 8, iii 6 “n (bricks in length): niche”. Cf. George 1995, 183. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) n. ta.àm ḫi-⸢ib-šú⸣ BagM Beih 2, 87: 2, 5, 8 eBL “n (bricks(?)) each niche”. new
Discussion
For the mng. “niche”, see George 1995, 183.
A connection with ḫibšu II “bond; band (of wool); blood ties, kinship community” cannot be excluded; cf. Aram./Syr. ḥbš “*to wrap up, imprison”, see Sokoloff 2002, 430; Jastrow 425; Sokoloff 2009, 409, suggesting a meaning in between Hebr. ḥbš “to bind”, see Gesenius 322, and Akk. ḫabāšu I “to be(come) hard, to swell(?)” (viz., to become knotted, compacted, bound together).