A-SA-SA-RA-ME
uprightly, in righteousness (variant of yaššaram, ʾa- for ya-)
- Reading
- ʾaššaram
- Confidence
- Confirmed
- Root
- *yašar- ‘straight’
- Kind
- Ritual
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #7 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Hebrewיָשָׁרyāšāryāšār (יָשָׁר) ‘upright, straight, righteous’ (Deut 32:4, Ps 119:137, 1 Kgs 9:4, Prov 2:7); yōšer (יֹשֶׁר) ‘uprightness, equity’ (Ps 111:8, Prov 2:13); √y-š-r ‘to be straight’; Yeshurun (יְשֻׁרוּן) poetic name for Israel = ‘the upright one’ (Deut 32:15, 33:5, 33:26, Isa 44:2); cf. Num 23:10 yĕšārīm (Balaam’s pun on Yeshurun)
- Ugaritic𐎊𐎌𐎗yšryšr ‘straight, upright’ (DULAT 973); yšr in ritual context = moral/cultic fitness
- Akkadianešēruešēru ‘to be/go straight, prosper’ (CAD E 354); išaru ‘straight, just, normal’; mīšaru ‘justice, equity’ (CAD M/II 116)—Hammurabi’s mīšarum edicts: royal debt-release decrees that ‘set things straight’
- Arabicيسرyasarayasara (يسر) ‘to be easy, smooth’; yasār ‘ease, prosperity’
Attestations3 cited
Commentary
IO Zb 10, PR Za 1 and PK Za 11: the Iouktas, Prassa and Palaikastro spelling of JA-SA-SA-RA-ME, with ʾA- for JA- (ya-), whose reading and cognates it shares. On PR Za 1 RA is drawn reversed, the A802 form, normalized RA (GORILA IV 48); PK Za 11 writes · A, then SA-SA-RA-ME · on the next line, with no divider between. Ebla writes the same base with a- for ya-: the names a-sa-ar, a-sa-ra /yaSar/, beside Amorite ia-sa-rum and a-ša-ru-um (GlOS 2, 377). The JA-/A- alternation runs through the formula verb too (A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA, JA-TA-I-*301-U-JA): a person marker or article variant on one root.