SEBUS

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Lehite GN 1. Waters in land of Ishmael, ca. 90 BC (Alma 17:26; 19:21)

SEBUS could mean “place of gathering,” from a root in West Semitic šbs, which means “to gather/assemble (persons).”[1] It appears as an Aramaic loan word in Neo-Babylonian texts once each as a verb, us-sa-ab-bi-is, and as an adjective, su-ub-bu-su-tu.[2] This root may be reflected in Amos 5:11, where the hapax legomenon שבס apparently means collecting of a grain payment.[3] The vowels would seem to follow the seldom used nominal pirūs form.

Cf. Biblical Seba, Sebat

Notes

  1. ↑ See J. Hoftijzer and K. Jongeling, Dictionary of North-west Semitic Inscriptions (Brill: Leiden, 1995), 775.
  2. ↑ CAD S, 341, sub "subbusu." See also AHW 1053, where it is translated as "zusammengerafft" and "zusammenholen."
  3. ↑ See HALOT sub שבס.
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