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*ḳsm - to practice divination
(Kogan 2015: 119)
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Hebrew
ḳsm
- to seek divination, to predict
(HALOT 1115)
Syriac
ḳṣm
- to foretell, practice divination
(LSyr. 687, SL 1397)
with secondary emphatization
Arabic
qsm
- X. to seek to know what was allotted to him by means of divinatory arrows
(Lane 2988)
Minaean
mḳs₃m
- décision oraculaire (oracular decision)
(LM 73)
Geez
ˀastaḳsama
- to practice divination
(CDG 446)