Line 103. Langdon has correctly rendered _suhuru_ as "hair," and has seen that we have here a loan-word from the Sumerian Suhur = _kimmatu_, "hair," according to the Syllabary Sb 357 (cf. Delitzsch, _Sumer. Glossar._, p. 253). For _kimmatu_, "hair," more specifically hair of the head and face, see Holma, _Namen der Körperteile_, page 3. The same sign Suhur or Suh (Brünnow No. 8615), with Lal, i.e., "hanging hair," designates the "beard" (_ziknu_, cf. Brünnow, No. 8620, and Holma, l. c., p. 36), and it is interesting to note that we have _suhuru_ (introduced as a loan-word) for the barbershop, according to II R, 21, 27c (= _CT_ XII, 41). Ê suhur(ra) (i.e., house of the hair) = _sú-hu-ru_. In view of all this, we may regard as assured Holma's conjecture to read _sú-[hur-ma-sú]_ in the list 93074 obv. (_MVAG_ 1904, p. 203; and Holma, _Beiträge z. Assyr. Lexikon_, p. 36), as the Akkadian equivalent to Suhur-Mas-Ha and the name of a fish, so called because it appeared to have a double "beard" (cf. Holma, _Namen der Körperteile_). One is tempted, furthermore, to see in the difficult word SKYRH (Isaiah 7, 20) a loan-word from our _suhuru_, and to take the words 'ETHORO'S VESA`AR HORAGELAYIM "the head and hair of the feet" (euphemistic for the hair around the privates), as an explanatory gloss to the rare word Skyrh for "hair" of the body in general--just as in the passage in the Pennsylvania tablet. The verse in Isaiah would then read, "The Lord on that day will shave with the razor the hair (HSKYRH), and even the beard will be removed." The rest of the verse would represent a series of explanatory glosses: (a) "Beyond the river" (i.e., Assyria), a gloss to YEGALAH (b) "with the king of Assyria," a gloss to BETA`AR "with a razor;" and (c) "the hair of the head and hair of the feet," a gloss to HSKYRH. For "hair of the feet" we have an interesting equivalent in Babylonian _su-hur_ (and _sú-hu-ur_) _sêpi_ (_CT_ XII, 41, 23-24 c-d). Cf. also Boissier, _Documents Assyriens relatifs aux Présages_, p. 258, 4-5. The Babylonian phrase is like the Hebrew one to be interpreted as a euphemism for the hair around the male or female organ. To be sure, the change from H to K in HSKYRH constitutes an objection, but not a serious one in the case of a loan-word, which would aim to give the _pronunciation_ of the original word, rather than the correct etymological equivalent. The writing with aspirated K fulfills this condition. (Cf. _samkatum_ and _samhatum_, above p. 73). The passage in Isaiah being a reference to Assyria, the prophet might be tempted to use a foreign word to make his point more emphatic. To take HSKYRH as "hired," as has hitherto been done, and to translate "with a hired razor," is not only to suppose a very wooden metaphor, but is grammatically difficult, since HSKYRH would be a feminine adjective attached to a masculine substantive.