• אֲבִיֹּונָה S 35 TWOT 3b GK 37 n.f. caper-berry (as stimulating desire) Ec 12:5 ( v. GFM ^JBL 1891, 55 ff. ; so Ö É , Mish. אביונות , cf. NHW B; v. also ã i.e. capparis spinosa , cf. Ri ^HWB; so Thes , Ew D e, etc.; but Wetzst in De (Germ. ed.
1875) proposes אֶבְיֹונָה (as fem. of אביון ) the poor soul in sense = נִשְׁמָתֹו הָאֶבְיֹונָה cf. Symm ã , where double translation ) .

• אֵבֶ˜ה S 16 TWOT 3c GK 15 n. [ m. ] reed, papyrus ( etymology uncertain; = Arabic أَبَاءٌ ( ˒abā˒un ), Assyrian abu Dl ^W, AGl ) אֵבֶה אֳנִיֹּות Jb 9:26 (craft made of reeds, light & swift, Heliod. Aethiop. X, 460 ) = כְּלֵי־גֹמֶא Is 18: 2.

אבה TWOT 4 ( perhaps at least formally justified as stem of אָב ^(cstr. אֲבִי ^), so Thes ( cf. infr .), but existence & meaning wholly dub. ; as real √ Ba ^ZMG 1887, 609 ff. Ol ^§

123 c ; according to Dl ^{W p. 22} אבה Assyrian abû = decide , אָב = he who decides; Thes (so RobGes Nö ^{ZMG xl, 737} & cf. Sta ^{§ 186} al. ) makes אָב nom. prim. bilit., imitating infant’s speech cf. πάππας , pappa, papa ( cf. Ew ^{§ 106 a}); also Assyrian bab Jen ^{ZA 1886,} 404

II.

) .

GFM G. F. Moore.

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature. ÉÑ Vulgate.

Mish. Mishna. NHWB Levy, Neuhebr. Wörterb . ãÑ Syriac Version.

Ri E. Riehm, Handwörterb. d. bibl. Alterth . Thes W. Gesenius, Thesaurus Linguae Hebraeae . Ew H. Ewals.

Wetzst J. G. Wetzstein Symm Symmachus. dub. dubious, doubtful. Ba J. Barth.

ZMG Zeitschrift d. deutsch. Morgenländ. Gesellschaft. RobGes Gesenuis, Hebrew and English Lexicon, translated by E. Robinson. Nö T. Nöldeke .
al. et aliter , and elsewhere; also et alii , and others.
nom. nomen, noun.

Jen P. Jensen.

ZA Zeitschr. für Assyriologie .