conc▪ BAH2008: »Arab philologists derive the form al-ṣābiʔūn (which occurs three times in the Qur’an) from this root or from the root ↗ṢBW ‘to incline’. Some western scholars attribute it to a borrowing from Aram, Gz or SAr. Hughes attributes the word to »the Hbr word tsābā ‘a host’ (Gen. ii.1, i.e., ‘Those who worship the hosts of heaven’)«.
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