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Definition of Girru
1. Noun. The Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Girru
Literary usage of Girru
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Nusku-Girru is the symbol of the heavenly as well as of the terrestrial fire.
... Nusku-Girru is by the side of Ea, the god of water, the great purifier. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1914)
"... ROBERT B.: 4, 492 Girgashites: 2, 376 Girolamo of Ascoli: 8, 163 Girru: 1,
411 Girsu: 1, 400, ..."
3. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Claude Hermann Walter Johns (1904)
"for girru, also used for ... for five years, to enter on his girru. He shall pay
one hundred and eighty SE and three shekels of silver to take back his ..."
4. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches (1906)
"One of the names of the god of fire, sometimes transcribed Girru by ... Girru is
another name of this deity, and translates an ideographic group, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Nebo, the god of wisdom, to whom the art of writing and the sciences are
ascribed; Girru-Nusku, or, simply, Nusku, the god of fire, as II. ..."
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