ܚܘܒܐ

From the root ܚ-ܒ-ܒ‎ (ḥ-b-b) related to burning; compare Arabic حُبّ‎ (ḥubb).

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈħub.bɑ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈxub.bɑ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈħu.bo]

ܚܘܒܐ • (ḥūbbā) m (uncountable)

1. love, affection
   • Peshitta, John 5:42:

     ‏ܐܠܐ ܝܕܥܬܟܘܢ. ܕܚܘܒܗ ܕܐܠܗܐ ܠܝܬ ܒܟܘܢ.‎‎

     ʾellā ʾīḏaʿtəḵōn, də-ḥūbbēh ḏə-ʾălāhā layt bəḵōn.

     But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

2. charity
3. (used with 2nd person possessive suffixes as a title) dear, beloved

From the root ܚ-ܘ-ܒ‎ (ḥ-w-b) related to owing; compare Hebrew חוֹב‎ (ḥôḇ).

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈħaw.bɑ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈxɑw.bɑ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈħɑw.bo]

ܚܘܒܐ • (ḥawbā) m (plural ܚܘܒܐ (ḥawbē))

1. debt, due
2. guilt, liability
3. (in the plural) sins
   • Peshitta, Matthew 6:12:

     ‏ܘܫܒܘܩ ܠܢ ܚܘܒܝ̈ܢ: ܐܝܟܢܐ ܕܐܦ ܚܢܢ ܫܒܩܢ ܠܚܝܒܝ̈ܢ.‎‎

     wa-šəḇoq lan ḥawbayn, ʾaykannā ḏə-āp̄ ḥənan šəḇaqn lə-ḥayyāḇayn.

     And forgive us our debts [sins], as we forgive our debtors.

• ܡܪܐ ܚܘܒܐ‎ (mārē ḥawbā, “debtor”)

• “ḥwb³”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2021-07-17
• “ḥwb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2008-11-25
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, pages 93b, 98b
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 129b
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana; Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, page 419a-b