# A-RI-PA (ʾaripāʾ)

> healer, of the Rephaim (√r-p-ʾ); rival ʿarpa 'clouds' (√ʿ-r-p)

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

- Reading: ʾaripāʾ
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*rVpVʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0355/index.md>) 'heal'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · RI (ri) · PA (pa)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *rpum* — rpum 'Rephaim' / ʿrpt 'clouds'
- Hebrew: רְפָאִים (rᵊpāʾīm) / עֲרָפֶל (ʿărāpel 'thick cloud')

## Attestations

- [PE 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE2/index.md>): A-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.

## Same root

- [A-RE-PI-RE-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RE-PI-RE-NA/index.md>) (ʾa-repiʾ-rennā)
- [RU-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-PI/index.md>) (rōpiʾ)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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