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מִלֵּי מִלֵּתָא   n.m.  glacis, millo


  glacis (as an offensive tactic)  JLAtg.

  = Hebrew מִלּוֹאa defensive construction  JLAtg, LJLA.

An absolute form with final /t/ has been reconstructed based on the variant pl. emph. מליתיא, but the latter is a dubious scribal correction based on the plural form in the MT that has a quite different meaning. Thus a formalization as mlˀh or even millō is probably to be preferred even though the only attested vocalized form is the emphatic.
  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: Jastrow: 790; Levy Ch-W: 2:39;

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