A-WA-PI

personal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of w-p-ʿ 'be brilliant')

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Reading
ʾawpiʿ
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*yVpVʕ- ‘shine’ 1, ‘go up, rise’ 2
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewהוֹפִיעַhôpîaʿהוֹפִיעַ hôpîaʿ "shone forth" (hiphil; Deut 33:2, Ps 50:2; HALOT 424)
  • Amorite*wpʿ*wpʿ ‘be brilliant’, apart from *ypʿ ‘raise up’: Ya-a-pa-aḫ-ᵈIM, Ya-pí-iḫ-ᵈIM (Huffmon 1965, 212); yapiʕ ‘radiant’ in names (GlOS 2, 375)
  • Ugariticy-p-ʿ/y-p-ʿ/ "to go up, rise"; PN ypʿ, syll. ia-pa-ú; ypʿbʿl, ypʿmlk (DULAT 958–959)
  • Egyptiangroup writing y-w-pꜢ-ʕ, a name with the w-glide (GlOS 2, 374, after Schneider, APÄQ 53)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KN Zf 313D]SI[ ]SI-ZA-NE-*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-REpersonal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of *wpʿ 'be brilliant', Huffmon 1965, 212; Heb. hôpîaʿ)

Commentary

KN Zf 31 · A-WA-PI ·, undotted, between dividers (GORILA IV 155), among the man’s names. Causative with ʾa-, final ʿ unwritten. The w is the root’s: Huffmon separates *wpʿ ‘be brilliant’ from *ypʿ ‘raise up’ (1965, 212), and Heb. hôpîaʿ, the theophany verb (Deut 33:2; Ps 50:2; 80:2), keeps it in ô < aw. The bare verb as a name, as Ug. ypʿ, syllabic ia-pa-ú (DULAT 958), and Amorite Ya-a-pa-aḫ. Cf. JA-WA-[?] on PE Zb 7, its third sign unread, for the prefix form. Rival: ʿawp ‘bird’ (Heb. ʿôp), which would need *306 for ʿa. See JA-PA.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

KN Zf 31Knossos…a-wa-pi
Linear A Lexicon