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Ugaritic
ḳš - oppressor
(DUL 717)
Hapax legomenon in 1.16 vi 47‒48: l tdy « ṯ » ḳšm ˁl dl ‘You have not expelled the oppressors from the poor.’
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PCS
*ḳšw
- to be harsh
(Kogan 2015: 192)
Cf. perhaps Tgr.
ḳäššä
‘to dry up (corn in the sun); to bear no fruit’