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J. Tropper (1993a:126) reads w-hˁrb ˀby mn dmšḳ l-ˀšw[r] in KAI 215:18 and translates ‘Und er führte meinen Vater von Damaskus hinein nach Assu[r].’ If this reading is correct, Samalian would possess a verb ˁrb ‘to come in, to enter,’ cognate to Ugr. ˁrb and Akk. erēbu, but not attested in Aramaic. No certainty in this respect is possible, however: apart from the epigraphic difficulties, one may observe that neither Ugr. ˁrb nor Akk. erēbu are normally used with the prepositions meaning “from” (DUL 179‒180, CAD E 259‒273). Given the fact that Hbr. ˁbr with min is, conversely, well attested (HALOT 780, meaning 8), one may wonder whether the traditional reading hˁbr, still accepted in KAI5, is worth preserving (Kogan 2015:409).

It is uncertain whether ˀšr was the Samalian term for “place,” as in both of its attestations (KAI 214:27: [ˀ]ḥh yršy šḥt b-ˀšr ḥd ˀyḥyh; KAI 214:31‒32: w-hnw lw šḥt b-ˀšrh) b-ˀšr can be translated “with respect to” rather than “in the place”/“in the territory of,” cf. Tropper 1993a:95, Dion 1974:33.

Direct cognates are attested in Akk. dalāḫu 'to stir', Ugr. dlḥt 'thick, cloudy', Hbr. dlḥ 'to make turbid', Off. Arm. dlḥ 'to stir up, to trouble; to be troubled', Syr. dlḥ 'to trouble, to disturb, to discomfit'. Cf. JPA dlwḥth 'fear, fright', connected with Syr. dlḥ by Sokoloff.