# A-RE-PI-RE-NA (ʾa-repiʾ-rennā)

> Healer of Jubilation (Eshmun epithet)

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ʾa-repiʾ-rennā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rVpVʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0355/index.md>) 'heal'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · RE (re) · PI (pi) · RE (re) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *rpu* — rpu '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)
- Amorite: *rāpiʾ* — rāpiʾ 'healer', a DN (Gelb 1980, §0.7); RA-BI-U₂-UM, RA-BI-A-TUM (nos. 5243, 5237)
- Hebrew: רֹפְאֶךָ *rōpʾekā* — rōpʾekā (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)

## Attestations

- [ZA Zb 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZAZb3/index.md>): A-TA-I-\*301-DE-KA A-RE-PI-RE-NA TI-TI-KU — Healer of Jubilation (Eshmun epithet)

## 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.

## Same root

- [A-RI-PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RI-PA/index.md>) (ʾaripāʾ)
- [RU-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-PI/index.md>) (rōpiʾ)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-RE-PI-RE-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-RE-PI-RE-NA/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; DULAT; GORILA IV; Gordon 1975
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1975), The Decipherment of Minoan and Eteocretan. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,148–158
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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