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The ra is either a phonetic complement to the ideograph or is perhaps added to suggest to the reader the identification with Gir-ra. Namely, the connection with Hebrew deber, 'pestilence. Cf. Harper, ib. p. 426. Babylon. Text obscure. "Sharpen badly" seems to be the idiomatic phrase used. See above, p. 154. See p. 475. A solar deity. See p. 99. Ishum. See above, p. 501. I.e., seven.
It should be added that what little evidence there was for the conventional reading Dibbarra has now been dispelled, so that but for the desire to avoid useless additions to the nomenclature of the Babylonian deities, the form Gir-ra would have been introduced here, as for the present preferable.
In view of a passage in a lexicographical tablet, according to which the name of the god is designated as the equivalent of the god Gir-ra, Jensen concluded that the name was to be read Gira, and Delitzsch is inclined to follow him. A difficulty, however, arises through the circumstance that the element Gir in the name Gir-ra is itself an ideograph.
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