palāḫu

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Meanings:
to fear; revere
de:German: Deutsch fürchten; verehren
Distribution: OAkk onward(s)OAkk onward(s): Old Akkadian onwards (ca. 2350 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: v.Verbroot: plḫIII – a/aa/a class (Present a, Preterite a)stative: PaRuSStative in PaRuS (deviates from default PaRiS) (occass. OAkk and OB otherwise regular PaRiS)stem: GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem), GtGt-stem (G with t-infix), GtnGtn-stem (G with tan-infix, iterative), DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive), DtDt-stem (D with t-infix), DtnDtn-stem (D with tan-infix, iterative), ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem), NN-stem (Reflexive/Passive stem)
Logogram: NÍ, NÍ.TUK, NÍ.TE, MUD, TE.NA
Etymology: Inherited Cf. PSem. *plḥ “to till, to plow, to do agricultural work; to work; to serve (especially a deity), to venerate”, see EDA 1, 236 (see further SEDo).
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Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [igarr]ur : garāra : pa-la-ḫu CunMon. 49/2, 316 o. 3 “[he wri]thes (means) to be(come) frightened (meaning) to fear”. Commentary Sakikkû XXXIV (unknown entry). new

51. GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem)

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ip-la-ak-ka (var. ⸢ip-la-aḫ⸣-ka) ri[gmiška erṣetu] Streck/Wasserman 2023, 210, 210: A iii 3, var. B r. 24 SEAL “for your r[oar, earth] feared you”. with assimilation ḫk > kk, cf. Streck/Wasserman 2008, 351f. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [..]. abi u ummi ša ibnûk[a ..]. ⸢pi?⸣-làḫ-šú-nu-ti-ma (var.: ⸢pu-lìḫ*⸣-š[u-nu-ti]) liktarrabū⸢ka⸣ Counsels of Wisdom: 9 eBL “[..]. of father and mother who created y[ou ..]. revere them so that they may always bless you!” The var. ⸢pu-lìḫ*⸣-š[u-nu-ti] in BM.33463+ i 2′ has been read differently in Földi 2022 as ⸢pi!?(BU)⸣-làḫ-š[u-nu-ti]. The form has been interpreted here as a D-stem variant, which may refer to the durative gesture of reverence towards the parents resulting in the likewise repeated blessing by these. Note that no other manuscript preserves the sign PI without doubt. K.13770 preserves traces of a rather high wedge, which has been interpreted by Földi as [p]i. However, considering the height of the horizontal wedge of NU in l. of the manuscript, the reading [p]u in l. 9 cannot be excluded as well. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) pa-liḫ ilī ⸢ul⸣ išêssu damāq ⸢pa-li⸣-[iḫ išta]r? šalāmu uṣṣab pa-liḫ (var.: pa-li-i[ḫ]) anun⸢na⸣kī urrak ūmū Counsels of Wisdom: A+89–91 eBL “favor will not miss the one who revers the gods: who rever[s a/the(?) godd]ess(?) will be increasingly healthy, who revers the Anunna-gods will prolong (his) days”. For parallels from behavioral omina see Földi 2021, 209ff.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) iqbâ aḫulap magal š[ūnuḫma] lā ta-pal-laḫ iqbâ ušaškin [...] Ludlul III 36 eBL “she said to me ‘Enough! He is much w[earied] (but) fear not!’ (is what) she said to me (and) she brought about [...]”. Hätinen 2022 suggests the broken end of the line may have been concerned with a time limit for ailments of the speaker but a decision-making process via divination might also be possible (cf. Ludlul III 39).

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) lā pa-li-iḫ i[lišu ...] lā pa-li-iḫ i[štaršu ...] Ludlul IV Sec. C 4f. eBL “who does not revere [his] g[od ...] who does not revere his g[oddess ...]”. new

12. GtGt-stem (G with t-infix)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GtGt-stem (G with t-infix) ana pi-it-lu-ḫ[u?] SpTU 4, 157: 17 eBL. Cf. Streck 2007a, 151.

13. ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem)

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ŠŠ-stem (Causative stem) ina šamê u erṣeti šup-lu-ḫa-at bēlūssu ⸢šur⸣bâti RINAP 2, 494: 9 RINAP “(who)se supreme lordship inspires awe in heaven and netherworld”. Said of Marduk. new

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