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Hebrew
məˁārā - cave
(HALOT 615)
Reconstruction
PCS
*maγār-at-/*maγarr-at-
- cave
(Kogan 2015: 193)
probably related to the verbal root
*γwr
‘to sink down, to be depressed’, v. Kopf 1976:160 and Takács 2008:681