Compared forms
- Hebrewחָנָןḥanānḥanān (חָנָן) ‘gracious’; ḥēn (חֵן) ‘grace, favor’
- Ugaritic𐎈𐎐𐎐ḥnnḥnn ‘to be gracious’ (KTU 1.16 vi 33–34)
- Arabicḥanānḥanān ‘mercy, compassion’
- Akkadianunnīnuunnīnu ‘prayer, supplication’
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
KN Zc 7, an inked vessel: GORILA prints JA-SA-RA-A-NA-NE as one group; read JA-SA-RA · A-NA-NE. ḥanān ‘grace, favour’, the qatāl pattern of the geminate root, A- writing ḥa with the guttural unwritten: Amorite Ḥanana (Gelb 1980, no. 475), ḥanan ‘gracious’ (GlOS 1, 245). With JA-SA-RA, yašara ḥanān ‘righteous is (thy) grace’. See A-NA-NU.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).