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Hebrew
ˁărāpäl - thick darkness
(HALOT 888)
Reconstruction
PNWS
*γarpill-
- storm cloud
(Kogan 2015:237)
The origin is uncertain, but an ultimate relationship with with Akk.
erpetu
‘cloud’, Ugr.
ˁrpt
is not to be ruled out