# I-NA-JA-RE-TA (hinna yarēʾat-\[…\])

> behold, she who reveres… (broken)

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

- Reading: hinna yarēʾat-\[…\]
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*yarVʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S17/index.md>) 'to fear, be afraid, revere' 1, 'reverence, awe (abstract noun)' 2
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · NA (na) · JA (ja) · RE (re) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎐 *hn* — hn "behold!"; yrʾ "to fear, revere" (DULAT 962)
- Hebrew: יָרֵא *yārēʾ* — yārēʾ (יָרֵא) "fearing", f. cs. yirʾat, Bab. yərēʾat (HALOT 433; Prov 31:30); hēn yirʾat (הֵן יִרְאַת) "behold, the fear of" (Job 28:28); yirʾā (יִרְאָה) "fear, reverence, awe"
- Aramaic: *yᵉrēʾ* — yᵉrēʾ 'to fear' (Jastrow 587)

## Attestations

- [AP Za 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/APZa2/index.md>): \]PI-MI-NA-TE I-NA-JA-RE-TA\[ \]QA — behold, she who reveres […]

## Commentary

AP Za 2 .2 I-NA-JA-RE-TA[ ]QA, no divider after TA. hinna yarēʾat… 'behold, she who reveres…': I-NA- as in I-NA-JA-PA-QA hinna yapqaḥ (PK Za 11), Ebla i-na, in-na (GlOS 1, 218); yarēʾat the feminine construct of yārēʾ 'in fear of', Babylonian yərēʾat (HALOT 433), as ʾiššâ yirʾat YHWH 'a woman who fears YHWH' (Prov 31:30), JA writing ya and RE the ē. Rival: yārēʾtā 'you have feared' (2 Sam 1:14), the finite verb of I-NA-JA-PA-QA. Rival: the noun yirʾat 'the reverence of' (Job 28:28; di Mino, Ya Diktu). Weak point: no divider follows TA, and the genitive is lost in the lacuna. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1; 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
- 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
- Jastrow: Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Luzac & Co., London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; 2 vols
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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