A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature - enenuru

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between p p and H h.
23 m}id, /ma}ida/ suffix conjugation, 3ms, “he increased.”
tbth, compare twb, “to return” or Hebrew tRbRv, “seat, throne.”
28 tntkn, from ntk, “to pour out” G prefix conjugation, 3fp.
32 nhmmt, often taken from the Arabic nwm, “to groan.” But
there are better comparisions with Hebrew and Akkadian;
Hebrew hDm…wn;Vt, “slumber”; Akkadian munattu, “waking.”
Perhaps it can be derived from nhm + mt, “waking from deep
sleep (of death).”
33 tl}un, from the root l}y, “to languish, be victorious” (Hebrew
lyh, “to be weary”); note that apparently the n has five
wedges and might be read tl}u}an (compare a }a with n n).
38 m}at, from mh and }at (compare Psalm 114:5) or my and }at
(compare Ruth 3:6).
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9 trths refers to ceremonial washing, which was commonplace in
Semitic religions.
wt}adm, “reddening-up.” Perhaps blood was used as a means
of consecretion of the king for his priestly functions (e.g.
Exod 24:20–21; Lev 8:22–24).
15 kl}atnm is generally taken as referring to both hands, e.g., with
ll}a it is taken to mean “a kid requiring both hands to hold.” It
may be compared with the Hebrew alk, “to enclose.” The
form kl}atn is then understood as a dual with an enlitic m and
translated as “enclosures” (e.g., Psalm 50:9 Kytwalkmm rp).
18 htt, Hititte for “silver.”
19 nbt, compare the Hebrew and Phoenician tpn, “honey.”
27 {db may be an infinitive absolute, a suffix conjugation, or a
participle. However, it is usually translated with a jussive
sense as are ngb (line 85), hlk (lines 92, 94), sgr (line 96),
and perhaps yrd (line 79).
31 mgíd, the parallelism dictates that mgíd must be “food” not
“fortress” (compare Hebrew dyx; cf. Genesis 42:25; Joshua
9:14).