A-PA-RA-NE

the crosser, the one from beyond (√ʿ-b-r, the ʿApiru word); rival 'creator' (√b-r-ʾ)

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Reading
ʿabrāne
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ʕVbur- 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 ~ *ʕa/ibr- 5 ‘cross’ 1, ‘extend beyond (something)’ 2…
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • Hebrewעָבַרʿābarʿābar (עָבַר) ‘to cross over’ → ʿibrī (עִבְרִי) ‘Hebrew’; bārāʾ (בָּרָא) ‘he created’ (Gen 1:1)
  • Akkadianebēruebēru ‘to cross over’
  • Ugaritic𐎓𐎁𐎗ʿbrʿbr ‘to pass, cross’; brʾ ‘to create’

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 96aI-TI-TI-KU-NI A-PA-RA-NE A-*123-TEheading name, also on HT96b; 'the crosser' (√ʿ-b-r) or 'creator' (√b-r-ʾ); Amorite comparison Ḥa-pí-ra-an, *ʿapir-* (Huffmon, APNM p. 36)
  2. HT 96bA-PA-RA-NEheading name, also on HT96a; Amorite comparison Ḥa-pí-ra-an, *ʿapir-* (Huffmon, APNM p. 36)

Commentary

HT 96a and b (Scribe 8, Casa Room 7, LM IB). HT 96b heads a major allocation: QA-*118-RA-RE qaṭara ‘incense’, *516 SIPRU, GRA 40¾, OLE+U 4, NI 2. The short form PA-RA-NE stands on HT 115a and b, by the same scribe. ʿabrāne, √ʿ-b-r with agentive -āne, ‘the crosser, the one from beyond’, as ʿibrī ‘Hebrew’, PA writing b. Amorite Ḥa-pí-ra-an, of the element ḤPR ḥapir-, *ʿapir-, the ʿApiru/Ḥabiru word (Huffmon 1965, 36, 202), matches A-PA-RA-NE with initial A for ʿa and -ān, cuneiform ḫ writing ʿ; so ḪABIR-AN (Gelb 1980, no. 1997). AP-RA-AN (Gelb 1980, no. 863) is a separate name, ʾApran, since cuneiform AP- writes ʾ and ʿ alike. Borger derives ʿapīru from ʿ-p-r ‘dust’ (apud Huffmon 1965, 202); PA writes p and b alike. Rival: √b-r-ʾ with -āne, ‘creator’, the aleph unwritten.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon