ዳቢር

Ge'ez

Noun

ዳቢር • (dabir)

1. Alternative form of ዳቤር (daber, “shrine”)
2. Debir, name of a Canaanite people in the Hebrew Bible, Judges 1:11.
   • Judges 1:11, Ethiopic text from Ran HaCohen, 'Biblia Veteris Testamenti Aethiopica'

     ወሖሩ ፡ እምህየ ፡ ኀበ ፡ እለ ፡ ይነብሩ ፡ ዳቢር ፡ ወስማ ፡ ለዳቢር ፡ ትካት ፡ ሀገረ ፡ መጽሐፍ ።

     wäḥoru ʾəmhəyä ḫäbä ʾəlä yənäbru dabir wäsma lädabir təkat hägärä mäṣḥäf .

     Then they went out from there to those who inhabit Dabir and the former name of Dabir is "The City of the Book."

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ዳቤር”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ዳቤር”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 121b