Compared forms
- Hebrewכַּרkarכַּר kar ‘pasture, meadow’ (Isa 30:23 kar nirḥāb; Ps 65:14); also ‘lamb, ram’ (Deut 32:14; Amos 6:4)
Attestations2 cited
Commentary
HT 97a opens KA-RU · *307+*307 · VIR+KA 82, then *327 33, KA-NU-TI 25, PA-I-TO 6: the heading slot of HT 85a A-DU · *307+*307 · VIR+[?], ‘pasture-sanctuary: men’. HT 75 KA-RU[, broken after RU (GORILA I 125). karru ‘pasture’, Heb. kar ‘pasture’ (Isa 30:23; HALOT 496), the geminate written single. Rivals: Akkadian kāru ‘quay, harbour, trading station’ (CAD K 231), an East Semitic word, for the harbour at Kommos; and a divine name, as A-DU heads HT 85a.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.