- Reading
- dubur
- Confidence
- Probable
- Root
- *dVb(V)r- ‘back, hind part’ 1, ‘descendants’ 2
- Kind
- Ritual
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #41 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Hebrewדְּבִירdəbîrdəbîr (דְּבִיר) ‘inner sanctuary’ (1 Kgs 6:5)
- Linear Bda-pu₂-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja (KN Gg 702), identified with λαβύρινθος (Chadwick–Baumbach 1963, p. 216)
Attestations4 cited
Commentary
PK Za 15 JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-DU-PU₂-RE ‘O Diqqitīt of the sanctuary’ and HT Zb 160 PA-TA-DA-DU-PU₂-RE. PK Za 11 reads A-DI-KI-TE-TE-[··]-RE (GORILA IV 34), two signs lost before RE, the slot DU-PU₂ fills on PK Za 15, and PK Za 8 writes it JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-*307-PU₂-RE. Three spellings write dubur: *307 alone, *307-PU₂-RE and DU-PU₂-RE. Hebrew dəbîr ‘rear room, holy of holies’ of the temple (HALOT 208); Linear B da-pu₂-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja (KN Gg 702); Egyptian group writing d-bi₄-r dabīr ‘naos, inner sanctuary’ (GlOS 1, 140, after Hoch, SWET 376, no. 561). DU-PU₂ keeps the u-u of the base noun dubur ‘back, hind part’ (Arabic dubur, Akkadian dubur, #151), of which the holy of holies is the later back-room sense. See DU-*314-RE.