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zēru II

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Variant: zarʾu

Meanings:

seed(s); descendent(s)

Same(n), Saat; Nachkomme(n)

Distribution:

Grammar:

pos: pattern: ,

Logogram: NUMUN, ŠE.NUMUN

Etymology: Inherited Cf. PSem. *ḏ arʿ, *ḏarʿ, *zarʿ “seed”, see Leslau 1987, 642; Fronzaroli 1969, 9f., 26, 33; Kogan 2011, 200.

21. "Seed"

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ilū [r]ab[īʾūtum] .[..] errata[m] lemuttam līrurūš zé-ra-šu lilqutū RIME 4, 705 ii 10 “the great gods shall inflict an evil curse on him (and) they shall take away his seed”. see similar also ZA 93, 10 vi 25 (NUMUN-šu).

MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts aj (text: ia) ⸢ibši⸣ [šumšu] ⸢NUMUN-šú⸣ aj (text: ia) ⸢ūṣâ⸣ ⸢perʾa⸣šu aj (text: ia) ⸢ēzib ana nišē šuma ša ṣâte⸣ Wilcke 2010, 434 viii 6 “[his name] (and) his seed shall be naught, his offspring shall not come forth, he shall not leave behind a name forever to the people”.

12. "Descendent(s)"

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts DN … ze-ra-am zākir šumim aj ušaršīšu BagM 34, 152: xvii 8 “DN … shall not allow him to have an descendant who pronounces (his) name”.

23. "Lineage"

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts šar GN ⸢ze-ru⸣ dārû BagM 34, 140 iii 12 “the king of Ešnunna, of old lineage”.

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) [a]ššu nīqu rabû zēru aḫû (A.RI.A.TA.BAR) baṭlu KAL 3, 76–76a: 13 “since the great sacrifice was prevented by the foreigner(s?)”.

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See also:

zērānū, zērīu

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