# \*333-DI-NA-SU-KA (bīdi Našūka)

> In the charge of Našūka ('the Bitten one')—custody formula + personal name on a sealed receipt

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: bīdi Našūka
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*bV--](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0007/index.md>) 'in' + [\*yad- ~ \*ʾid-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2046/index.md>) 'hand'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*333 · DI (di) · NA (na) · SU (su) · KA (ka)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎄 *bd* — bd 'in the hand, charge of' (< bi-yadi) (Huehnergard 2012, glossary); nṯk (I) 'biter' (DULAT 643)
- Hebrew: *bĕyad* — bĕyad 'in the hand of'; nāšak 'bite' (Num 21:6)
- Akkadian: ina qāt 'in the charge of' (functional parallel); našāku 'to bite' (CAD N/2 53)

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3010](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3010/index.md>): \*333-DI-NA-SU-KA

## Commentary

HT Wc 3010, a roundel: *333-DI-NA-SU-KA alone. With *333 = bi, bīdi 'in the charge of': Ug. bd 'into the hands of, (intended) for', from b (y)d (DULAT 211), the custody preposition of administrative receipts. Našūka 'the Bitten one', qatūl of √n-š-k 'bite', as Hebrew nāšak of the snake (Gen 49:17; HALOT 729); cf. the serpent names Naḥash (1 Sam 11:1) and Naḥshon. Pair of HT Wc 3009 *333-DI-SU-KA: the same frame, another name. -KA the diptote genitive -a of a proper name, as Ugaritic ugrt /ʾugarita/ (Huehnergard 2012, 40). Weak point: *333 = bi rests on its three words. Rival: the whole group a personal name. One attestation. See PA₃.

## Same root

- [I-DA-A](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-A/index.md>) (ʾIda)
- [I-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA/index.md>) (ʾIda)
- [JE-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JE-DI/index.md>) (yedī)
- [PA₃](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83/index.md>) (bi=)
- [I-DA-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-MI/index.md>) (ʾIda=mi)
- [I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-PA~E2~82~83-I-SA-RI/index.md>) (ʾIdā bi-ʾišarī)
- [PA₃-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-E/index.md>) (bē)
- [\*333-DI-SU-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*333-DI-SU-KA/index.md>) (bīdi Sūka)
- [I-DU-NE-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DU-NE-SI/index.md>) (Yidu-naḥši)
- [I-DU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DU-TI/index.md>) (Yidu-ti)
- [JA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-DI/index.md>) (Yadi)
- [PI-KU-ZU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-KU-ZU/index.md>) (bi-kuṯ)
- [PI-MI-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-MI-NA-TE/index.md>) (bi-mināti)

## In the onomasticon

- [\*333-DI-NA-SU-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*333-DI-NA-SU-KA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; HALOT; Huehnergard 2012
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- CAD N/2: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1980), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 11, N, part 2. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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