- Reading
- ʾAddar
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *ʾaddīr- ‘noble, notable’ 1, ‘majestic, powerful’ 2…
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- HebrewʾAddār (אַדָּר), son of Bela (1 Chr 8:3; HALOT 17); place names ʾAddārâ (Josh 15:3), Ḥăṣar-ʾAddār (Num 34:4)
- Eblaʾa₅-da-ru₁₂ ʾadaruʾa₅-da-ru₁₂ ʾadaru ‘strong’ (Pagan 1998, row 130); a-da-ra ‘the strong one’ (row 558)
- Ugariticadradr ‘wonderful, magnificent, strong; noble’ (DULAT 21)
Attestations1 cited
- ARKH 5A-DA-RO GRA 40personal name ('Mighty'; Hebrew ʾAddār, 1 Chr 8:3)
Commentary
Recipient slot on ARKH 5, parallel to A-DU-NI-TA-NA: A-DA-RO GRA 40[+, the entry wrapping past the broken edge to *131B 6 at the start of .3 (GORILA III 16–17). Final -O is a dead vowel; GORILA dots RO, and the .3 logogram is written over an erasure. Cf. A-DA-RA (KN Zf 31). Rival: Akk. adru ‘threshing floor’ (CAD A/1 129), against which one entry carries both grain and must (cf. Num 18:27). One attestation. See DI-DE-RU.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.