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l_ p03
l_ prep. to, for

  0 to, for Com.
  1 : of general relationship (nominal) Com. --(a) non-animate genitive Com. --(b) of interest or disinterest Com.
  2 : of general relationship (verbal) Com. --(a) + infinitive : purpose Com. --(b) + infinitive : it is necessary to Syr.
  3 : dative Com. --(a) with transitive verbs Com. --(b) with intransitive verbs Com. --(c) ethical dative Com.
  4 : direction Com. --(a) addressee of letters Com. --(b) כל + direction name : in the direction of Qum.
  5 : possession Com. --(a) forming a compound substantive : that which belongs to ... Com.
  6 : marking the definite direct object Com.
  7 : subject of a passive part. in a perfective construction OfA-Pers, Syr, JBA, LJLA.
  8 + number : after X Syr.
  9 in fixed expressions . --(a) to give or take lˀntw. lˀnth : as wife Com. --(b) לאמר , לְמֵמַר : as follows, quoteative introduction , OfAGen.

)lp noun sg. emphatic
ˀlp, ˀlpˀ (ˀelle(?)p̄, ˀellǝp̄ā) n.f./m. ship
With doubled /l/ and spirantized /p/ in the Syriac and JBA Yemenite traditions, though not explicitly so in JLAtg.
TgProv regular var. is ילפא as a sophomoric hypercorrection by a scribe who knew that initial yodh words in Jewish Aramaic often corresponded to aleph yodh in syriacizing texts; compare similar forms such as the var. ירסא for ארסא "venom" at TargPs 58:5 (for which see Levy Ch-W 1:345).

  1 ship Com.
  2 fig. . --(a) (zool.) portion of a bird Gal. --(b) in astron. imagery . (b.1) the Pleides Syr. (b.2) the crescent moon (?) [possibly rather the great ship = the Sun in Manichaean lore] Syr.