If I am not mistaken the same technical expression -The same word XRM is used in Arabic even today with a similar but subtly different meaning. Unclean food like pork is "haram" i.e. forbidden to Muslims. Also the "harem" or ladies' quarters are forbidden to all but the lord. But the component of destruction is missing from the Arabic concept.
'to dedicate to destruction' - is used in the Moabite stone on reference to the inhabitants of an Isrealite city who were sacrificed - XRM - to Chemosh.
It's quid pro quo - I give you something valuable -
you ( Chemosh ) give me something back,
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