A-KO-A-NE
the priest (proposed title after PI-TE-RI)
- Reading
- ha-kōhan
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *kVhVn- ‘act as a priest’ 1, ‘to have second sight…’
- Kind
- Personnel
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Ugaritickāhinukhn /kāhinu/ ‘priest’; plural /kāhinūma/
- Hebrewכֹּהֵן kōhēn; הַכֹּהֵן ha-kōhēn ‘the priest’
- Phoenician𐤊𐤄𐤍khnkhn ‘priest’
- Arabicكاهنkāhinكاهن kāhin ‘soothsayer, diviner’
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
PK Za 11 .2 […]-RE · PI-TE-RI · A-KO-A-NE ·, the one witness; damaged A-[…]-NE stands in the same slot on PK Za 12. A title in apposition: PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE ‘Pitrī, the priest’, ha-kōhan with the Canaanite article ha-. Ug. khn ‘priest’ (DULAT 428), Heb. kōhēn (HALOT 461–462), Phoenician khn (Krahmalkov 2000, 224). The second A writes the a that h keeps in Heb. kōhănîm, JArm. kāhănā (HALOT 461) and Arb. kihānat ‘divination’ (Lane 3004). Name and title stand as in Heb. ʾahărōn ha-kkōhēn ‘Aaron the priest’ (Exod 31:10). Rivals: a second personal name, the second of two dedicants (Davis 2013, 42; Thomas 2020, 8, 10); Akk. and Nuzi Aḫūni ‘our brother’ and Arb. ʾaḫawāni ‘two brothers’, which fit the signs poorly. Weak point: one attestation.