Kaus-gabri

Ḳaus-gabri (Akkadian: 𒋡𒍑𒃮𒊑 Qauš-gabri; Edomite: 𐤒‬𐤅‬𐤎𐤂‬𐤁‬𐤓‬ Qāws-geber) was king of Udumi or Edom in the 680s BC, during the reign of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon.[1] His name may mean "[the god] Kaus is my champion".[2]

References

Kessler, P L. "Kingdoms of the Levant - Edom". www.historyfiles.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
Johns, Claude Hermann Walter (c. 1901). An Assyrian Doomsday Book, Or, Liber Censualis of the District Round Harran in the Seventh Century B.C.: Copied from the Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum. J. C. Hinrichs. p. 17. The element gabri, in Si-gabri, Nashu-gabri, Ilu-gabri, is the Hebrew and Palmyrene Q5. It also is found in the name Gabri, Gabbari, and the Edomite Kaus gabri. Si gabri means Si is my champion.

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[1] Kessler, P L. "Kingdoms of the Levant - Edom". www.historyfiles.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-30.

[2] Johns, Claude Hermann Walter (c. 1901). An Assyrian Doomsday Book, Or, Liber Censualis of the District Round Harran in the Seventh Century B.C.: Copied from the Cuneiform Tablets in the British Museum. J. C. Hinrichs. p. 17. The element gabri, in Si-gabri, Nashu-gabri, Ilu-gabri, is the Hebrew and Palmyrene Q5. It also is found in the name Gabri, Gabbari, and the Edomite Kaus gabri. Si gabri means Si is my champion.