LIB

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Jaredite PN 1. King (Ether 1:17, 18; 10:18, 19 (x3), 29)
2. Usurper (Ether 14:10 (x2), 11 (x2), 12 (x3), 13, 14, 15 (x2), 16 (x3), 17)

Etymology

Until a possible language origin for JAREDITE can be determined, all suggestions for etymologies of JAREDITE names must remain more speculative than substantive.

Sumerian lib "(to be) rich, well-off; high quality; (to be) happy" = Akkadian hadû, hidiātu, râšu, rāšû, rīšātu.[1]

Akkadian libbu, lib-bi “heart, center” (loanword in Sumerian lib "inner body; heart")[2] = Ugaritic lb, HEBREW lēb, lēbāb.[3]

Sumerian lib "dazed silence, (deathly) silence; (to be) dazed" = Akkadian šaqummatu; Cf. Sumerian lib4 “agitate,” and lib4-lib4 "plunderer."[4]

See RIPLAKISH, RIPLIANCUM, RIPLAH

Variants

Deseret Alphabet: 𐐢𐐆𐐒 (lɪb)

Notes


  1. ePennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary.
  2. ePSD.
  3. Hayim ben Yosef Tawil. Akkadian Lexical Companion, (Jersey City: KTAV, 2009): 177-184; Patrick R. Bennett, Comparative Semitic Linguistics: A Manual (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1998), 238-239.
  4. ePSD.
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