if the next word is
. But the text is quite uncertain.
is a rope or cable (Bonomi, Sarc. II, c, 34), and like the Latin copula or the Semitic חבל, حبل has the sense of tie, bond, connection.[[63]]
When the prince of Tennu (Berlin Pap. 1, line 31) proposed a family alliance to Senehat, he said to him