ṣēru I
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Meanings:
back
de:German: Deutsch Rücken
fr:French: Français dos
ar:Arabic: العربية ظهر
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRSverbal adjective of roots i--gem., PāS
Logogram: EDIN
Etymology: Inherited Cf. Arab. ẓahr (SED I 253).
11. Back, spine
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ṣe-e-ri ilputū ra⸢ʾī⸣ba ⸢iddû⸣ Ludlul II 63 eBL “they affected my back (and) inflicted trembling”.
12. In prep. use
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) balāṭum lū ik⸢ki⸣bšu kīma šamā ebūrim i-na ṣe-er ṣuḫrim u rabîm lū maruṣ ZA 93, 10 vii 8 “life shall be a taboo (viz. a forbidden thing) for him, it shall be as arduous for child and adult as rain during harvest”. Also RIME 4, 709: 64. See Wende 2022, 229: § 351 for the use of ina ṣēr in inscriptions from Simurrum instead of later Bab. elī. new
Discussion
Based on etymology, ṣēru has been divided into ṣēru I “back” and ṣēru II “steppe, desert”.