nābiʾu

CAD N/1, 24 nabāʾu B “to plunder”, N/1, 25 nābiʾu “plunderer”, AHw 698 nābiʾu II “der fortführt” are analysed as SB var. of nepû (cf. AHw. 779 nepû G 2). The references for nābiʾ (ptcp. G) in royal inscrs. are listed in CAD N/1, 24 nabāʾu B, CAD N/1, 25 nābiʾu but not in AHw 698 s.v. nābiʾu (listing only a lex. equation from malku I 101f.: na-bi-ʾu šu-šu-ru = šá-li-lum), which is supposed to belong to nepû (napāʾu/nepû II, note the different indication in ib. 779 nepûm, napû III “fortführen”) where these attestations represent the only evidence of the verb in the 1st millennium (ib. Bed. 2; otherwise OB). Both, nabāʾu B and nepû III seem to stand in contrast to nabāʾu A “to rise” (AHw 697 nabāʾu “aufsteigen; aufsprudeln;” see also the correction in von Soden OLZ 79) and it is thus tentatively accepted here that nābiʾu II is derived from a SB form of nepû (napāʾu/nabāʾu) only attested in malku I 101f. and the royal inscr. of Sargon II and Asarhaddon.