ḫābilu II
1 Lexical
MA-LexMA-Lex: Middle Assyrian lexical texts gu-lá = ḫa-bi-lu KAL 8, 238 no. 117 iv 17 DCCLT “who stretches a net = trapper”. Between ba-ru-u “fisher” and ēbilu “trapper”.
4Further Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ḫa-[b]i-li MesCiv. 7, 11 iv 167 “trappers”. in list of professions. Cf. Sjöberg 1996, 121 and 138 (followed by entries denoting hunters).
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) attanaggiš kīma ḫa-bi-lim qabaltu ṣēri Gilg. OB: a+12 eBL “I wandered like a trapper through the steppe”. Prev. cited s.v. ḫābilu I “criminal”, which remains a possibility. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ḫab-bi-lu amēlu Gilg. SB VII 94 eBL “trapper-man”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ṣajjādu ḫa-bi-lu amēlu Gilg. SB I 111 eBL “a vagrant, a trapper-man”.