rabbu

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts šaptān ra-ab-ba-ta-an Pohl 2022, 186 i 43 ↗SEAL “soft lips”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DN) ša nakbat qātīšu lā inaššû šamāʾū rettuš rab-bat (var.: rab-b[a-t]i; [ra]b-⸢ba⸣-[t]e; rab-ba-a-ti ; [rab-ba(-a)]-tú) ukaššu mīta (var.: mītī) Ludlul I 10 ↗eBL “(Marduk) whose hands’ weight the sky cannot bear, (but) whose gentle palm (lit.: hand) helps the moribund”. Cf. also Ludlul I 12 (var. syntax). The form was interpreted in BWL, CAD and AHw as kâšu (D) “to delay,” but recent editions understand it as kīʾāšu D (Oshima 2014, 79; Lenzi 2023, 97). See diff. Oshima 2014, 79 (“(but) his palms are gentle, they save the dying (man). (lit.: the dead)”) and Hätinen 2022: 10 (“His grasp is gentle to rescue the moribund”). ^new