- Reading
- Dišon
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *dīšān- ‘aurochs, antelope’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- HebrewDîšôn, Horite and Edomite clan, wədîšôn wəʾēṣer wədîšān (Gen 36:21); dîšôn ‘aurochs, antelope’, among the clean animals (Deut 14:5) (HALOT 221)
Attestations1 cited
- HT 108DU-SU-NI 4personal name, 'antelope'; rival a Hurrian name in -nni
Commentary
HT 108 .2 DI-NA-RO 2 DU-SU-NI 4[, whole and undotted, a recipient in the grain list under KI-RE-TA-NA (GORILA I 175). Hebrew Dîšôn and Dîšān, clans of Seir (Gen 36:21), and dîšôn ‘antelope’ (Deut 14:5). Rival: a Hurrian name in -nni, as DA-KU-SE-NE. One document.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.