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bbw n.f. hostility
hostility
LJLA
PJ Gen32:6↗ דלא תינטר לי בבו עלה‏ : so that you do not stay hostile to me because of that ; PJ Gen37:5↗ ואוסיפו תוב למינטר ליה בבו‏ : they continued being even more hostile to him ; PJ Ex17:8↗ ומן בגלל בבו דהוה ביני עשו וביני יעקב‏ : on account of the hostility that was between Esau and Jacob
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A back-formation due to misanalysis of dbbw. The usage is especially common as the object of the verb nṭr, but is well-established in LJLA. Given that the Akkadian origin of the original expression was forgotten many centuries earlier (for which see bˁldbb, bˁldbbˀ n.m.), one need not regard this usage as indicative of only a learned or artificial Aramaic.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: Jastrow: 136Levy Ch-W: 1:80

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