A-RI-PA
healer, of the Rephaim (√r-p-ʾ); rival ʿarpa 'clouds' (√ʿ-r-p)
Compared forms
- Ugariticrpumrpum ‘Rephaim’ / ʿrpt ‘clouds’
- Hebrewרְפָאִים (rᵊpāʾīm) / עֲרָפֶל (ʿărāpel ‘thick cloud’)
Attestations1 cited
- PE 2A-RI-PA ¹⁄₄
Commentary
PE 2, in a list of fractional entries: A-RI-PA ¼, after A-*325-ZA ¼ and before QA-QA-DA ½. ʾaripāʾ, √r-p-ʾ ‘to heal’: Ug. rpum, the Rephaim, ancestral healers and shades (KTU 1.20–22; DULAT 731), Amorite Rapiʾum (Gelb 1980, no. 5238), r-p-ʾ names at Mari and Alalakh (GlOS 2, 168). Rival: Ug. ʿrpt ‘clouds’, from rkb ʿrpt ‘Rider of Clouds’, Baal’s epithet (Ps 68:5), with the ʿ unwritten. One attestation. See RP-33-Y and A-RE-PI-RE-NA.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.