A-RE-PI-RE-NA
Healer of Jubilation (Eshmun epithet)
Compared forms
- Ugariticrpurpu ‘healer’, divine ancestor and eponymous god (DULAT 731); rnn ‘to shout’, åp ån årnn ql ‘then let me myself shout’ (KTU 1.82:6; DULAT 731)
- Amoriterāpiʾrāpiʾ ‘healer’, a DN (Gelb 1980, §0.7); RA-BI-U₂-UM, RA-BI-A-TUM (nos. 5243, 5237)
- Hebrewרֹפְאֶךָrōpʾekārōpʾekā (רֹפְאֶךָ) ‘your healer’, kî ʾănî YHWH rōpʾekā ‘for I am YHWH your healer’ (Exod 15:26); wattirpāʾēnî ‘and you healed me’ (Ps 30:3); rinnâ ‘joyful cry’ (Ps 30:6)
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
ZA Zb 3 .2 A-TA-I-*301-DE-KA · A-RE-PI-RE-NA · TI-TI-KU, a healer’s title on the pithos that offers wine to A-SA-MU-NE Eshmun, the healing god. Vocative ʾa-, the east-Cretan form of yā, as A-DI-KI-TE-TE (di Mino, Ya Diktu, 20), then rāpiʾ ‘healer’ (√r-p-ʾ) and rinnā ‘joyful cry’ (√r-n-n), participle and genitive in one word as KA-NI-JA-MI qāniy-yammi. It names the god whom -DE-KA addresses, as rōpʾekā ‘your healer’ names YHWH (Exod 15:26); Ps 30:3 and 30:6 join the two roots. RE-PI is written over an erased PI, and damage crosses PI (GORILA IV 113). Rival: Gordon (1975, 153) reads MA for PI: re-ma-re-na, Aramaic mārēnā ‘our lord’. One witness. See A-RI-PA, RP-33-Y, RU-PI and RA-NA-TU-SU.