napištu

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) na-ap-ša-at immeri Cohen 2018, 132 i 4 “throat of the sheep”. ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) rūʾa ṭābi ukarraṣa na-piš-ti (var.: na-piš-tum) Ludlul I 88 ↗eBL “my good friend began to vilify me for my life (e.g. in a capital case?)”. The instance has been interpreted differently in BWL 35 (“My intimate friend has brought my life into danger”); Oshima 2014 (“my good friend was slandering (var.: clutching) my life”); Hätinen 2022 (“My best friend made my life an aspersion”). The only other attestation of the meaning of karāṣu D is found in CH § 161. Similarly, napištu is used also in CH and sources concerning legal matters to refer to capital cases—cases of life (and death). Given the use of both terms in law contexts, the meaning of napištu here might thus likewise bear a legal nuance, most likely “(in) a capital case (of mine)”; see for this meaning of napištu CAD N/1, 300f. napištu 4. ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) šīrāšu nap-šat nišī elīja imtar⸢ṣu⸣ Ludlul II 89 ↗eBL “beer, the sustenance of the people, has become repugnant for me”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) aklu ⸢nap-šat⸣ UNmeš Ludlul IV Sec. A 18 ↗eBL “bread, the sustenance of the people”. See Hätinen 2025, 18. Diff. Hätinen 2025, 18 (“He made bread, what befits people,” reading ⸢si⸣-mat UNmeš instead).

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) lūman lā bēlu ⸢u⸣mašširanni na-piš-tú (∥ [na-p]iš-ti) arḫiš ibtelīma Ludlul V 31 ↗eBL “if the lord had not set me free (my) life would have been extinguished quickly!”

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) šūt Aruru ikruṣu keressin šakittu nap-šá-tu Ludlul V 81 ↗eBL “those whose lump (of clay) Aruru pinched off, living beings”.

ZISBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ZImeš-šú (|| ZI me-šú) iktanarrâ ZI-šú ša kīma mê ṣamû ītenerrub Sakikkû IX 57 “his intakes of breath are constantly short (and) his breath enters repeatedly like someone thirsty for water”. See also Sakikkû X 32. Diff. Schmidtchen 2021, 417 (“seine Kehle keucht fortwährend (wörtl.: tritt i. w. ein)”).

ZISBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) šumma ZI-šú itarrakma qitrubat Sakikkû X 30 “if his breath(ing) gets harder (lit.: pound) and is (more) frequent”. See also Sakikkû X 28f. (ištanaḫḫiṭ), 31 (ušelli).