mi-ḫir
miḫru

Akkadian noun

Last edited: 2023-07-03
Primary meaning counterpart
Literal translation counterpart
Variants
mi-ḫir miḫru
GABA.RI miḫru
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counterpart astrological concept

šum4-ma GU4.UD u GENNA ina KI.GUB lu ina DUR lu ina mi-ḫir GUB-iz LU2 BI NU DAB

‘If Mercury of Saturn stand in a stationary position or in the DUR or in the opposite: this man will not be seized.’

— BM 34618 (LBAT 1596) 13-14

Genre: astrological medicine
Provenance: Babylon
Date: 4th-1st century BCE

Hunger, H., 2014. A Late Babylonian Astrological Tablet. In: Studies in Economic and Social History of the Ancient Near East in Memory of Péter Vargyas, ed. Zoltán Csabai and Tibor Grüll. Budapest: L'Harmattan: 657-669 658

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APA (7th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mi-ḫir (Lemma #753). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/753/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mi-ḫir (Lemma #753). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/753/
MLA (9th)
Schreiber, M. (2023). mi-ḫir (Lemma #753). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/753/
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Schreiber, M. (2023) mi-ḫir (Lemma #753), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/753/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
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@misc{zodiac753,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Schreiber, Marvin},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mi-ḫir ({Lemma} #753)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/753/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/753/},
}