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Arabic
ḥbs - to shut in, to imprison
(Lane 500)
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PCS
*ḥbš
- to tie, to band
(Kogan 2015: 209)
Akk
abšānu
compared to this root in LSyr. 213 and elsewhere, is borrowed from Sum. abšu ‘a strap or band,’ hapax legomenon in a late lexical list, it is more likely to be a WS (loan)word