# I-KI-RA (ikkara)

> farmer, tenant farmer (occupational title)

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

- Reading: ikkara
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾkr 1, \*ʾa/ikkār- 2](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1810/index.md>) 'to cultivate' 1, 'laborer' 2
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · KI (ki) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *ikkaru* — ikkaru 'plowman, farmer, farm bailiff' (CAD I/J 49)
- Hebrew: *ʾikkār* — ʾikkār 'farmer, agricultural worker', bōšû ʾikkārîm 'the farmers were ashamed' (Jer 14:4; HALOT 47)
- Syriac: *ʾakkārā* — ʾakkārā 'farmer' (HALOT 47)

## Attestations

- [HT 25a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT25a/index.md>): I-KI-RA 1 — farmer, tenant farmer, 1

## Commentary

HT 25a .5, a personnel list: I-KI-RA 1, whole as written; the lower-left margin before it is lost (GORILA I 44–45). ikkara 'farmer': Akkadian ikkaru 'plowman, farmer' (CAD I/J 49), Hebrew ʾikkār (Isa 61:5; Jer 14:4; HALOT 47). I-KA ʾikkār (HT 91, HT 102) leaves the final r unwritten; here r is written with a following vowel. Rival: a personal name. One attestation. See A-KI-RO.

## Same root

- [I-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-KA/index.md>) (ʾikkār)
- [A-KI-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-KI-RO/index.md>) (ʾAkiru)

## In the onomasticon

- [I-KI-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/I-KI-RA/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD I/J; HALOT
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- CAD I/J: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1960), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 7, I and J. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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