ilu

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Variant: elu
Meanings:
god
de:German: Deutsch Gott
fr:French: Français dieu
Distribution: OAkk onward(s)OAkk onward(s): Old Akkadian onwards (ca. 2350 BCE onwards)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PiSExpresses verbal content or its object or result
Logogram: DINGIR, SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) NI, SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DINGIR.NÍTA (occas.)
Etymology: Cf. PS *ʾil “god”, Fronzaroli 1965, 248, 262, 267; Kogan 2015, 179.
21. In relation to a man

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) lū īde kī itti dingir (var.: dingirmeš) itamgur annâti Ludlul II 33 eBL “I should have known that these (ways of acting) are always acceptable for a god (var.: the gods)”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ša damqat ramānūš ana dingir gullul⸢tu⸣ ša ina libbišu mussukat eli dingir-šú damqat Ludlul II 34f. eBL “what is good for oneself (might be) a sacrilegious act for a god (and) what is (considered) done bad in one’s (lit.: his) heart (might) be good for one’s (lit.: his) god”. See also Ludlul II 38. new

12. God and goddess

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [...] ⸢DINGIR ⸣-ku-nu šunu .[.. i]š⸢tar⸣kunu kilallān [...] Ludlul IV Sec. B 5 eBL “[...] your [g]od, they .[..] your [g]oddess, both [...]”. i+5 in Hätinen 2022. Diff. Oshima 2014, 104f. (“... they pla]ced them, utter[ance ...”). See also Ludlul IV Sec. C 2 (“to my god [...]”); Ludlul IV Sec. C 4 (who does not revere [his] g[od]). new

13. Day of a god

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kī ša ... ibṭilu ūm(u) dingir išēṭu eššēšu Ludlul II 16 eBL “(I became) like one who had stopped (practicing) the day(s) of a god (and) who had missed the festival day(s)”. new

14. With rašû “to have a god, have luck”

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [šumma ina MU] ⸢3 ?⸣kám imqussu abūšu DINGIR irašši šerru šū ina šatti šuʾātu imât Sakikkû XXIX 12 “[if] it affects him [in the] ⸢3rd⸣ [year] – his father will be lucky; that infant may die during that year”. Corresponds to 25–28 in Heeßel 2000. See also Sakikkû XXIX 13f. (29–33 in Heeßel 2000). new

45. Further Attestations

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) i-li-šu-nu ... ana GN āl šarrūtija lū ušārīʾam BagM 34, 144 vii 12 “I have truly brought their gods ... to GN, my royal city”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) panīka-āmur i-la-at CUSAS 10, 9: 18 (= ALL, 3) SEAL “I looked at your face: you are a god”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) annanna ša iš-šu annanna AML, 36: 6, 13 SEAL “so-and-so, whose god is so-and-so”. iššu < il-šu, see Wasserman/Zomer 2022, 135. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [abu] u ummu DINGIRmeš ša bīti Counsels of Wisdom: 10 eBL “[father] and mother are the gods of the household”. Note the var. in ms. BabLB2 (BM.41931) l. 8′: [... DIN]GIRmeš šá a-šib [É]/a-me-[lu-ti/-li(m)]. Cf. for possible restoration Földi 2021, 194 and Lenzi 2021, 7 (see translation “variant: of ma[n]”). new

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