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▪ Jeffery1938: »The philologers would derive the word from tabaʕa ‘to follow’, and explain the title as meaning that each king followed his predecessor, cf, Bagh. on xliv, 36. / Fraenkel, Vocab, 25, connected it with the Eth [Gz] tabʕa ‘strong, manly’, and Nöldeke in Lidzbarski’s Ephemeris, ii, 124, supports the connection. The word itself, however, is clearly SAr, and occurs in the inscriptions in the compound names tbʕ-ʔl, ʔlh-tbʕ, tbʕ-krb, etc. Hartmann in ZA, xiv, 331-7, would explain it from √BTʕ = Hbr √BṮʕ, but this seems very unlikely.¹ , and everything is in favour of the other derivation. The word was apparently well known in pre-Islamic Arabia, for it occurs not infrequently in the old poetry.² .«

1. Lidzbarski, Ephemeris, i, 224, says: ‘Ich halte diese Erklärung für möglich, nicht wie Hartmann und Mordmann für gesichert.’ See also, Glaser, Altjemenische Studien, i, 3; Rossini, Glossarium, 256; Ryckmans, Noms propres, i, 319. 2. See Horovitz, KU, 102, 103.

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