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Hebrew
ŝāhēd - witness
(HALOT 1311)
Hbr. ŝāhēd in Job 16:19 is an obvious Aramaism (Wagner 1966:109).
Reconstruction
PArm
*ŝhd
- to witness
(Kogan 2015:396)
The only cognate of PArm. *ŝhd ‘to witness’ is Arb. šhd with the same meaning (Lane 1609).