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Hebrew
hab - (imp.) give
(HALOT 236)
only the imperative hab (mostly hābā) is attested, more or less exactly parallel to Soq.
hábə
‘donne!’
Reconstruction
PWS
*whb
- to give
(Kogan 2015:398)
Reflexes of PWS *whb (DRS 508) function as the main verbs with the meaning “to give” in Aramaic and most of EthS (v. CDG 609 and further remarks in Kogan 2015:70; 442).