▪ Accord. to
DRS, the Hbr form given as a cognate here is doubtful.
▪ It seems difficult to decide which of the basic notions appearing in this items is the primary meaning: ‘to be obstinate’, ‘to wrong s.o., ill-treat’, or ‘to hold back (for o.s.), hoard’? One option could be: ‘to be obstinate’ > ‘to hold (obstinately) back (for o.s.), hoard’ > ‘to wrong s.o., ill-treat (by hoarding s.th. for o.s.)’. Another option could be to imagine a development of two senses (‘to be obstinate’ and ‘to wrong s.o.’) from one primary ‘to hold back’.
▪ Akin to
DRS ḤKR#2 ‘rent, to let out’ (Hbr JP
ḥākar, TargAram
ḥəkar ‘to let’, EmpAram
ḥkr ‘rent’)? The authors of
DRS hold this item apart from ḤKR#1 because it may be related to Sem KRY ‘to let; to buy’ (cf. Ar ↗
kirāʔ ‘rent’).
1
At first sight, Ar ↗
ḥikr ‘ground rent, quitrent’, seems to be cognate of the
DRS ḤKR#2 items on account of semantic proximity to ‘rent, to let’. However, as already seen by ClassAr lexicographers,
ḥikr is more likely to depend on ḤKR_1 (in the sense of ‘to hold back for o.s., monopolize’), cf. the meaning given for ClassAr in Lane as ‘what is enclosed of lands, or of lands and houses, or of lands and palm-trees etc., and debarred from others, so that they may not build upon it nor otherwise make use of it’.
2
Nevertheless, the overlapping between ‘to hold back’ and ‘to let’ may suggest to reconsider
DRS’ decision to hold the two values/items apart.