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Hebrew
gibbēn - one having defective eyebrow (?)
(HALOT 174)
The context of Lv 21: 20 rather points to this meaning (cf. [Ja. 207]); usually understood as ‘hump-backed’.
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PCS
*gVb(b)ān-
- eyebrow, front
(SED I No. 69)