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          ˀby - to want, be willing
            (HALOT 3)
        
       
     
   
    
      As observed by T. Nöldeke (1904:66), the Hebrew verb is almost always coupled with negative particles: lō(ˀ) ˀābā ‘he did not want,’ etc. (for a strikingly similar structural parallel in Old Assyrian lā muˀāˀum ‘not to want’ see Veenhof 1986)(Kogan 2015: 277)