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Hebrew
šəpīpōn - horned viper
(HALOT 1628)
HapLeg in Gn 49.17. pB. ‘a species of serpents, adder’ (Jastrow 1616)
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PS
*šVpp-
- kind of snake, worm, insect larvae
(SED II No. 207)
Phonetically and semantically close forms with -b- are united into a separate root *šibb- ‘kind of snake, worm’, SED II No. 200.